From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: Neil Conway <nconway_kernel@yahoo.co.uk>,
Hans Kristian Rosbach <hk@isphuset.no>,
Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:40:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41C1C87F.6050900@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C1C2AD.90902@dbservice.com>
Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
> > Right now, the only scheme I have vaguely concocted in my head that
>
>> will make this work for us is to add another disk to become the boot
>> disk - this is actually a major PITA cos there's really no physical
>> space in the chassis - and then use a GPT/EFI (whatever?) partition
>> table on the big disk. This means that BIOS won't understand the big
>> disk at all but that'll be OK since it isn't trying to boot from it.
>>
>> Anyone with a magic tip for how to do this is welcome to tell us all
>> ;-))
>>
>
> I had a GUID partition table (GPT) on my system (x86, normal
> mainboard/BIOS etc) and it worked fine. I didn't need a separate boot
> disk. I used grub as the boot loader. I think if you enable GPT in the
> kernel you should be able to boot stright from the big disk.
>
However, the disk array was only 360GB and the boot partition was the
first one on the disk, maybe 60MB big (in the first 1024 sectors).
tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-16 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 14:52 3TB disk hassles Neil Conway
2004-12-16 15:33 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 15:37 ` Mark Watts
2004-12-16 15:38 ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-16 16:44 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:15 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-16 17:38 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 18:05 ` Tomas Carnecky
2005-02-05 1:47 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:40 ` Tomas Carnecky [this message]
2004-12-16 15:52 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 16:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-16 16:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-18 0:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-18 3:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-18 12:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-18 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 17:13 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-01-03 17:32 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-01-03 18:11 ` linux-os
2004-12-16 17:10 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 19:52 ` Adam Heath
2004-12-16 23:28 ` Pedro Venda (SYSADM)
2005-02-05 1:51 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 22:21 Rico Tudor
[not found] <fa.fng0mbi.10jm21g@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.ls0rpqi.104a23q@ifi.uio.no>
2005-02-05 2:58 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-02-05 11:14 ` Neil Conway
2005-02-06 10:59 Neil Conway
2005-02-06 19:01 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-02-08 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <linux.kernel.20041216145229.29167.qmail@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
2005-02-10 0:06 ` Jan Lindheim
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