On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 05:47:22PM -0600, Andy Valencia wrote: > --------------- > Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have you checked to see if your board supports 3TB. I have a cubieboard 2 > > and it is advertised to take a maximum of 2TB > > Thanks for the note. I didn't imagine that there'd be a hardware > limitation (this being just the SCSI packet protocol over USB), but > your question suggested a couple more searches to try, and I ended > up finding the heart of the problem. > > It turns out that gparted leaves a legacy fdisk description when it > writes the GPT one, and my OS config did not have the config value > CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED set to y. So the kernel was using that fdisk > description, which apparently leads to a garbled view of the disk's > contents. With CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED enabled, I could then enable > CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION beneath it. Build, reboot, and my large disk are > all mounted and looking good. > > Thanks to the list for the help, and also kudos to the folks who > put together the sunxi web content--it was very helpful in letting > me get my kernel configured and built. I'll put in a word with the > Marsboard folks to see about getting this into their standard > Debian image. > > Andy
Stick this in http://linux-sunxi.org/Frequently_asked_questions please. Someone else is bound to run into it again in the future. Luc Verhaegen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
