On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 at 8:28am, Chris Mauritz wrote
> 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?
>
> Just create a small 100-200mb partition for /boot and it will work
> fine. The root filesystem can be on the larger partition without any
> problems as long as /boot is in a <2TB partition it will be happy.
IME, that won't work. >2TiB disks must have gpt disk labels, and neither
grub nor lilo understand those.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
