https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354390
Summary: Installation on multi-terabyte systems should use GPT and LILO Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: geoff@cs.hmc.edu QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Customer
When installing on systems with root disks larger then 2 terabytes, a GPT partition table should be created. In addition, unless Grub 2 is included in the distribution, the boot loader should be set to LILO with an appropriately small /boot to hold the kernel.
Currently, the user must be savvy enough to create a GPT partition table using the rescue system, and then must hand-select and hand-configure LILO. Otherwise, only the first 2 TB of the disk is available.
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Cyril Hrubis chrubis@novell.com changed:
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User fehr@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354390#c2
Thomas Fehr fehr@novell.com changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Thomas Fehr fehr@novell.com 2008-01-21 04:05:30 MST --- I meanwhile changed the code in SL 11.0 so that it creates GPT partition tables on disks larger than 2 Terabyte. Of course this only happens automatically when there is no other valid partition table or if the user instructs YaST2 to destroy the existing partition table. Automatically destroying a valid partition table and with this all data on the disk is not an option.
Reassigning to Jozef, so that he can do the necessary changes in bootloader.
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User visnov@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354390#c3
Stanislav Visnovsky visnov@novell.com changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Stanislav Visnovsky visnov@novell.com 2008-09-16 02:07:01 MDT --- We will not install LILO by default.
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User geoff@cs.hmc.edu added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354390#c4
--- Comment #4 from Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu 2008-09-16 15:21:17 MDT --- I understand the preference for avoiding LILO, which has all sorts of drawbacks. For that reason, I support adding Grub 2 to the distribution; this is the "right" fix to the problem.
However, as long as Grub doesn't support GPT, it seems unwise to hold to a rigid anti-LILO policy when that can lead to an unbootable system. An alternate approach would be to pop up a message warning the user that the system will be unbootable with Grub 1, and offering LILO as an alternative.
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User juhliarik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354390#c5
Jozef Uhliarik juhliarik@novell.com changed:
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--- Comment #5 from Jozef Uhliarik juhliarik@novell.com 2008-09-17 07:09:08 MDT --- IMO there was feature for support GPT in GRUB. fate #304993 IMO it is done ;-)
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