Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 14:27 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote:
I wanted to turn a machine into a nfs server, zo i bought some 3TB disks. However, i was told that there seems to be a machical boundry at 2TB, which is alleged to be solved by grub2. As SuSE isn't capable of doing that directly from YaST (at least in 12.1) i decided to put it on hold.
Definining a small primary partition such as /boot as the first partition of the disk doesn't work? Personally, I consider this good practice anyway as even if your damage your 'live' partition /boot is likely unscathed.
Adam,
That workaround is not sufficient.
First the basic problem:
- greater than 2TB disks require GPT partitioning to access the full disk - Booting from GPT disk requires patched grub
- Initrd needs a GPT patch (at least per the wiki page)
I tested booting from 3TB disk with GPT+lilo in Dec2010, no patch needed.
- Booting a GPT disk requires EFI support in bios
Possibly, my test system was an old(ish) HP or IBM desktop, I don't know if it had EFI support. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-4.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org