Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:40:15 +0100 | | From | Tomas Carnecky <> | | Subject | Re: 3TB disk hassles |
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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).
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