From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261744AbULPRkT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:40:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261436AbULPRkS (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:40:18 -0500 Received: from neopsis.com ([213.239.204.14]:12003 "EHLO matterhorn.neopsis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261744AbULPRj6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:39:58 -0500 Message-ID: <41C1C87F.6050900@dbservice.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:40:15 +0100 From: Tomas Carnecky User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomas Carnecky Cc: Neil Conway , Hans Kristian Rosbach , Mark Watts , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles References: <20041216164413.71455.qmail@web26506.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <41C1C2AD.90902@dbservice.com> In-Reply-To: <41C1C2AD.90902@dbservice.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Neopsis-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Neopsis-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: tom@dbservice.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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