Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:15:25 +0100 | From | Tomas Carnecky <> | Subject | Re: 3TB disk hassles |
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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.
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