Many hardware based RAID systems allow you to create more that 1 virtual disk. This is done with luns. If your hardware supports it, you could split your monster disk (2.75TB) into 2 or more virtual disks. The first would be very small, just for boot, or maybe the OS. Or you could split the 2.75TB into virtual disks that are all smaller than 2TB. Just some ideas. Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carlos Knowlton Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:46 PM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: booting from a HW RAID volume Hello, I'm using a 3Ware 9500 12 Hardware RAID controller that has 12 of 250GB S-ATA drives (total storage = 2.75TB). To my 64bit FC3 box, this looks like a single huge SCSI disk (/dev/sda). I used parted to create GPT partitions on it, (because nothing else would work on a volume that big). This seems to work fine, except that grub doesn't seem to recognize GPT partitions. So here's my question: Does anyone know a way to boot from huge volumes (where "huge" = >2TB)? even if it doesn't involve grub, or GPT, I'm open to suggestions. Any clues? Thanks! -Carlos Knowlton - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
