On Friday 02 September 2005 22:26, Akop Pogosian wrote: > I have been trying to install CentOS 4.1 on a new server today. The > installation went fine but the system doesn't boot. It doesn't even > get to the Grub screen. The system has a 3ware 9500 series controller > and 12 250GB SATA disks which are configured for RAID5 with one hot > spare. I searched on the web and noticed that this is a Grub (and > Lilo) limitation. Is there any way around it other than setting up a > smaller RAID device? Grub has a 2TB limitation - always did... even the latest 1.90 release still has that issue. The only reasonable ways to get around that is to split your array into <2TB pieces or to get another disk for booting... Lilo has the same issue - so you're not gonna be very happy. Peter.
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