LI Xin wrote:
Lawrence Farr wrote:
I'd like to install stable directly onto a 6Tb Areca array, and
have run out of clues how to do it. In the past I've always
used a separate boot volume that was small enough for sysinstall
to work with, but I have no space to fit more drives in this
chassis. I've tried putting a small partition on the start,
which boots fine, but screws up the disk sizing as the geometry
is wrong I guess? tried diskprep, but that gets the gemometry
wrong as well. Is the only option to use gpt and restore to
it from another boot device and hope that the bios can boot it?
I am afraid so... 6TB is way too large for MBR to manage (which can
support 4TB at maximum).
I've got a server with an Areca in it, and found it works fairly well to divide
the "raid set" into a small "volume set" for booting and use the remainder as
another volume set for data.
The BIOS and OS see the volume sets as separate drives, so the one you're
booting off of can be a reasonable size that the MBR can handle, and sliced and
partitioned normally. The data "volume set" I just newfs-ed raw (no slices or
partitions).
Barry
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