Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-07 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi Darac, Am 06.09.2013 um 14:45 schrieb Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk: If you're getting an error saying root couldn't be mounted then I'm assuming that: - BIOS has found GRUB - GRUB has found the kernel - the kernel has booted BUT - the kernel couldn't find the rootfs, so

Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-07 Thread Robin Kipp
Hello Shane, Am 06.09.2013 um 15:49 schrieb Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com: I have had problems with the initrd not having the LVM modules loaded in it. I had to make sure LVM was installed then run: update-initramfs -u -k all then : update-grub to get it to play

Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi list, I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard drives, I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes with a capacity greater than 2TB require a GPT partition table. Unfortunately, the server does not support UEFI, and thus can't boot from GPT

Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: Hi list, I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard drives, I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes with a capacity greater than 2TB require a GPT partition table. Unfortunately,

Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Shane Johnson
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.ukwrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: Hi list, I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard drives, I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes