From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261961AbULPSDP (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:03:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261966AbULPSDP (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:03:15 -0500 Received: from neopsis.com ([213.239.204.14]:29923 "EHLO matterhorn.neopsis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261961AbULPSDK (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:03:10 -0500 Message-ID: <41C1CE60.5010606@dbservice.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:05:20 +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: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles References: <20041216173811.7697.qmail@web26505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041216173811.7697.qmail@web26505.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: > Hi Tom... > > --- Tomas Carnecky wrote: > >>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. > > > Wow, that's unexpected but encouraging news. What distro? Did it > allow you to go GPT right from the off, or did you have to migrate from > an MSDOS ptbl to a GPT one after installation? > It was gentoo, and I even think I installed it right onto the GPT disk, so no migration. But I'm not sure. You just have to look that your kernel supports GPT. I don't know if the kernel from the gentoo livecd supports GPT. Also have a look here how to create GPT partitions: http://www.google.ch/search?q=site%3Ausefulthings.org.uk+gpt I think I did it like it's shown there, mklabel, mkpart and mount them. I don't think I migrated from MSDOS to GPT, because I don't even know how it'is possible if you have only one disk with the system on it. While looking for gentoo GPT support, I found this: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0411.1/0624.html Looks like CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is enabled by default now on the newer kernels. tom