On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:23 -0700, Dana Lacoste wrote: > Here's a question -- does grub work yet if your boot device is >2TB? > I > just ran into this issue on RHEL4. sda on my system is a ~3TB > hardware > RAID5 (3ware). I put a couple of small partitions at the beginning of > the > disk for /, /var, and the like, the install seemed to go fine, but > afterward it wouldn't boot. Booting into rescue mode and trying > commands > from the grub prompt seems to indicate that the disk is too big for > grub. > > A simple 'lilo' in rescue mode made the system bootable. Lilo on a > 2TB device is risky. It has worked exactly once for me, and never again. Also, a > 2TB device requires a GPT disk label in order to not eat the file systems created upon it. Lilo cannot install to a GPT disk partition last time I tried. It barfed badly. Work is about to begin (as Peter said) to make grub handle GPT disk labels, which is necessary for > 2TB block devices. This will allow grub to boot a > 2TB root block device. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating