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Can GRUB boot my operating system from over 8GB hard disks?

April 26, 2017boot GRUB hard disks operating system

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Can GRUB boot my operating system from over 8GB hard disks?

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That depends on your BIOS and your operating system. You must make sure that your drive is accessible in LBA mode. Generally, that is configurable in BIOS setting utility. Read the manual for your BIOS for more information. Furthermore, some operating systems (i.e. DOS) cannot access any large disk, so the problem is not solved by any kind of boot loader. As long as I know, at least GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux can boot from such a large disk.