On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 15:02 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:27:27PM +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.
Lilo works. elilo might be an alternative too.
As SuSE isn't capable of doing that directly from YaST (at least in 12.1) i decided to put it on hold.
But here: http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/D213A024C090CE9F862577D5...
They write that specially patched verions on grub-legacy can do the trick also.
I guess they talk about http://en.openSUSE.org/SDB:Installing_on_LARGE_disks You better file a feature request to get this included or at least to get the feedback why not.
So question is, does anybody knows if grub included on 12.1 has that particular patch?
grub as part of openSUSE 12.1 has the first smaller part of this chnage set available from the openSUSE wiki.
Lars
Ok Lars, just did it. It is indeed the large disk feature. Eventhough the mentioned pathes are from 2005, it is becoming more relevant now, since 3TB disk are commonly found. Perhaps (i sincerely hope so) it is just a documentation feature.. Your feature has been created with id 313224. Regarding what tauno wrote: "Definining a small primary partition such as /boot as the first partition" I allways do so, but is not relevant to this feature. Point is, with disks/raids this large, you have a problem with making such a partition tabel (block numbers must use 64bit instead of 32-bit numbers) Heance either the patch, or grub2 hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org