Here is the new disk layout. 7 partitions, 6 less than 2TB.
Installer will not pass go (NEXT) unless it has a small disk
to put the loader on.
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.7.2
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): B025ABE6-6570-4D80-AA58-13EFE6B98E07
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2925 sectors (1.4 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 6143 2.0 MiB EF02
2 6144 92166143 43.9 GiB EF00 ext4
3 92166144 184326143 43.9 GiB 0700
4 184326144 276486143 43.9 GiB EF00 ext4
5 276486144 337926143 29.3 GiB 0700
6 337926144 399366143 29.3 GiB 0700
7 399366144 5860532223 2.5 TiB 0700
On 11/04/2011 06:10 AM, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote:
> >>> So, apparently, Verne cannot install on a machine with only 3TB
> drives.
>
> Probably because GRUB2 can't scribble properly on large drives with
> 4096 byte sectoring,
> which is a drum I've been banging for the last 6-8 weeks. It won't
> under F16, Oneiric, or
> Asparagus (openSUSE 12.1).
>
> If you don't need the data on your 3TB drive for anything - i.e., if
> it's available
> for just fooling around at this point, throw down a new BIOS/MSDOS
> partition scheme on
> it, create some partitions and inspect them to see that they're the
> size and shape you
> really wanted/expected them to be. Then do the same thing with a GPT.
> It would not
> surprise me if your BIOS/MSDOS partitions didn't see every byte on the
> drive, although
> that problem may've been fixed in the newer 'parted' version. Rod
> Smith's 'gdisk'
> program was able to properly partition my 3TB under openSUSE 11.4 and
> other distros.
>
> The other problem is that some of the new large drives have 4096 byte
> sectors but
> play firmware games and present 512 byte blocks to users.
>
> The upshot is, as Adam alluded to in the test-list thread 'Fedora 16
> Final Release Declared GOLD!',
> there will be a significant enlargement of the test matrix due to the
> need to test "small" (<2TB)
> disks with 512 byte sectors, large disks with 4096 byte sectors and
> large disks with 4096
> byte sectors that masquerade as 512 byte sectored drives, plus
> whatever else comes to market.
> And, those drives need to be tested with legacy BIOSes (that know only
> about 512 byte
> drives with MSDOS partitioning), EFI/UEFI-aware BIOSes, and so forth.
> Not a fun task!
>
> HTH, and very 73,
>
> Brandy, N1HO
>
>
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