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SubjectRe: 3TB disk hassles
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
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