On Thursday 28 June 2007 02:45:22 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2007-06-28 at 14:17 +0300, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
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To properly handle GPT disk labels, we need a tool that can write them (parted) and a boot manager that understands them (grub2). Luckily, the filesystem limits are a little farther.
Can this be considered for inclusion in 10.3?
Not that simple, IMO. You also need mount tools to be able to read them, so that mount by label in fstab works. The udev system would have to display them in /dev/disk/, too.
I have (finally) succeeded in booting SLES9 from a GPT disk with a 3.4 TB partition. It doesn't have udev and doesn't mount by label, so this is what I had to do: * boot Rescue System and save the system on a NFS export * define the disk as GPT with parted, create partitions * restore the system * try to compile grub2, no success * found Marco Gerards patch for grub 0.97 that adds GPT capabilities http://files.bitleap.com/software/grub/grub-0.96-gpt_partition_support.patch * compiled the patched grub on the restored system, still using Rescue System * /usr/local/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda * grub loads, but it doesn't want to load initrd, gives error 28, Selected item cannot fit into memory * found another patch that SUSE uses http://www.nabble.com/attachment/9708953/0/070_all_grub-0.97-initrd_max_addr... * it has blood all over it, but it boots and runs. It will be all right :-) I didn't mention that I had to use a Driver Update Disk from Dell in order to be able to see the full capacity of the volume. With the driver from SP3, it only showed 2 TB. SLES9 kind of cries for a SP4. I could not use SLES10, although I would've liked that much more. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org