On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:49:54AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >Best thing for > 2TB disks is to use LVM anyway > > At least as far as d-i is concerned (AFAICT), you have to put LVM on top > of an existing partition table; you can't just use the full /dev/sda or > whatever. (The command-line lets you get around this).
Yikes. The a stupid and quite serious bug in d-i. > However, even if you do use the command line to get around d-i > limitations, its still not safe to have /boot on LVM (at least according > to all the documentation I've seen). with lilo it's safe if the LV is created with the continuous flag, for grub I'm not sure whether it has LVM support these days, I implemented support for LVM1 ~5 years ago but it got lost (and I don't have the patch anyore either) > I believe the only way to use d-i on machines with only > 2TiB disks is > to rebuild the kernel to enable EFI GPT. Or any other of the partition formats that work. E.g. all the SGI Altix systems with >2TB volumes (which is probably all of them) use IRIX disk labels.