From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: Neil Conway <nconway_kernel@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:05:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41C1CE60.5010606@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041216173811.7697.qmail@web26505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Neil Conway wrote:
> Hi Tom...
>
> --- Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
> Wow, that's unexpected but encouraging news. What distro? Did it
> allow you to go GPT right from the off, or did you have to migrate from
> an MSDOS ptbl to a GPT one after installation?
>
It was gentoo, and I even think I installed it right onto the GPT disk,
so no migration. But I'm not sure. You just have to look that your
kernel supports GPT. I don't know if the kernel from the gentoo livecd
supports GPT.
Also have a look here how to create GPT partitions:
http://www.google.ch/search?q=site%3Ausefulthings.org.uk+gpt
I think I did it like it's shown there, mklabel, mkpart and mount them.
I don't think I migrated from MSDOS to GPT, because I don't even know
how it'is possible if you have only one disk with the system on it.
While looking for gentoo GPT support, I found this:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0411.1/0624.html
Looks like CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is enabled by default now on the newer
kernels.
tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-16 18:03 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 [this message]
2005-02-05 1:47 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:40 ` Tomas Carnecky
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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