Hey Nathan and Pascal, > (In that case, do you think that you could leave out the pata module > from your --modules list??)
> Then it is unlikely that you need the 'pata' driver. It is for old parallel > ATA (aka IDE) drives. You are right, I have tried it now without `pata` and it still works. I also changed the module order (putting `nativedisk` to the front) and it also still works. So that clarifies my remaining questions from before. > But I think you could find out the answer to the "device size" question > by booting from a Grub DVD or USB stick and then running the "ls" > command from the resulting non-rescue grub> prompt... I tried this with SuperGrub2Disk, but oddly `ls (hd0)` and `ls (hd0,gpt2)` show the full sizes (8 TB). > However couldn't you just use a separate RAID array based on small partitions > located at the beginning of the drives for /boot ? I think I could -- but would it be preferable? It seems that with `nativedisk` I can achieve a correct boot and be more independent of bugs in the firmware, which looks like a strong argument to me. Thanks again! Niklas
