From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261947AbULPROx (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:14:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261946AbULPROi (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:14:38 -0500 Received: from neopsis.com ([213.239.204.14]:49890 "EHLO matterhorn.neopsis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261947AbULPRNA (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:13:00 -0500 Message-ID: <41C1C2AD.90902@dbservice.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:15:25 +0100 From: Tomas Carnecky User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Conway Cc: Hans Kristian Rosbach , Mark Watts , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles References: <20041216164413.71455.qmail@web26506.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041216164413.71455.qmail@web26506.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Neopsis-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Neopsis-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: tom@dbservice.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Neil Conway wrote: > Right now, the only scheme I have vaguely concocted in my head that > will make this work for us is to add another disk to become the boot > disk - this is actually a major PITA cos there's really no physical > space in the chassis - and then use a GPT/EFI (whatever?) partition > table on the big disk. This means that BIOS won't understand the big > disk at all but that'll be OK since it isn't trying to boot from it. > > Anyone with a magic tip for how to do this is welcome to tell us all > ;-)) > I had a GUID partition table (GPT) on my system (x86, normal mainboard/BIOS etc) and it worked fine. I didn't need a separate boot disk. I used grub as the boot loader. I think if you enable GPT in the kernel you should be able to boot stright from the big disk. tom