[opensuse-factory] GPT drives / elilo ? [WAS: Re: What is enabled by default in the new kernel in openSUSE 11.3]
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Roman Bysh
On 07/05/2010 11:05 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Roman Bysh
wrote: On 07/05/2010 02:16 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Greg Freemyer
[07-05-10 13:33]: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Roman Bysh
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:
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.
-- Cheers!
Roman
So, in the user's case that filed the bugzilla it appears to me it was just a data drive. If so, GPT support for data drives should have been in openSUSE for a long while now. (ie. maybe 11.1) and it not working is clearly a bug somewhere along the line. Possibly specific to the drive. As to GPT boot drives, obviously that requires a EFI compliant system. And EFI/GPT booting support I know nothing about. The link you provided describes SLED / SLES installs with elilo as the boot manager, so I doubt it applies to openSUSE. As far as I know openSUSE installs are currently grub 1.x based only, and I'd be surprised if grub 1.x supports EFI/GPT boots. Not sure about grub 2. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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