Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
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). However, even if you do

Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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

Re: Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:53:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: 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

Re: Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:24:26PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:53:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: 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.

Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
severity 281905 wishlist thanks The EFI format is unfortunately rather misdesigned and has a backup data area at the end of the devices - which won't be acciable by lots of usb devices because they have broken size reporting. This alone wouldn't be a problem if we could simply probe EFI last,