Quoting Hilario Ortigosa Monteoliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The system detects de 2.8 TB 'disk' (hardware raid5) and partitions it > with GPT/EFI system. All the process goes OK, but at the step of > installing grub, it refuses to install (as there is no MBR structure on > the disk). Lilo installs OK, but out of the box it is unable to boot > large kernels (like the amd-xen kernel image from etch). Several > workarounds, as trying to use grub-efi from etch-backports was > unsuccesful. At last, the only 'simple and safe' solution was to re- > install in a raid vdisk smaller than 2 TB, avoiding the MBR disk size > limit.
Do you think that the problems comes from >2TB disks or >2TB *partitions*? Otherwise said, what partitioning scheme did you choose for your 2.8TB disk? GRUB maintainers, could you comment here? What are the known limits? > As the info I looked for, I understand that the problem is about grub, > but the installer shouldn't allow to install root/boot partition on a > disk larger than 2 TB, or at least, showing a warning about the grub > problem. It's very likely that it will not, given the timeframe, but we need to document this the best way we can. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
