Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (517 mails)

[Roman Bysh <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/05/2010 11:05 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Roman Bysh <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 07/05/2010 02:16 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > * Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> [07-05-10 13:33]:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Roman Bysh <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > One of the users that we were helping on the pre-release forum could not
> > > > > get his 2T Seagate recognized by the kernel. A bug report has been
> > > > > submitted to Bugzilla.
> > > ...
> > > > You're asking if the openSUSE kernel has GPT support?
> > > >
> > > > I has for a while I'm pretty sure.  Maybe even the 11.1 kernel.
> > > >
> > > > What makes you think it doesn't?
> > > >
> > > > Or are you asking if the yast partition module supports them?  I don't
> > > > know about that.
> > >
> > > I have an external sata2 2T drive that works fine in 11.2
> >
> > Here's the link to Bugzilla:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617288
>
> Out of curiosity, I just added myself to the cc list, but the bugzilla
> is just a couple weeks old and people appear to be looking at it, so
> the process seems to be going fine.
>
> fyi: You imply your 2TB drive has a GPT (GUID Partition Table).  I did
> not think WIndows Vista supported GPT on boot drives.  Has that
> changed with Win 7 to do so?
>
> Thanks
> Greg

Apparently. This not my drive.

Check out this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/gpt_faq.mspx

In addition, the following instructions from Novell for SLED/SLES 11
provide instructions to boot to shell and execute /efi/boot/elilo.efi
from removable media.

Here's the link:

http://www.novell.com/support/documentLink.do?externalID=7003263


I will also cc to myself. I'm curious about the outcome.

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Cheers!

Roman
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