On 05/02/14 05:46 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
On 02/04/2014 06:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> And then we can definitely justify making them bigger. 550MB, or even 1GB. It's
neutral to plus
> for performance for either HDDs or SSDs (faux short stroked in the former, and
overprovisioned for
> the latter). Does anyone know why the convention is to create the ESP as the first
partition?
At times in the past there was a race between BIOS support for large disks and hard disk
size, and
BIOS boot code could not reach the far sectors of the disk. This even leaked into Linux
sometimes,
It still happens: I just had a case of this on Dell R620 (Ivy Bridge Xeon) with over 3TB
disk space
and RHEL 6.5... Grub couldn't reach it's files to boot OS.
Dariusz