Hello,
I’ve a RAID partition of 3TB.
At end of installation Suse 11.0 GRUB don’t load because partitionn it’s over 2TB.
Anyone have a solution for boot grub with 3TB?
thank you
Have a separate boot partition at the beginning of the disk.
I’ve already tried to create a boot partition but they do not work .
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Did you create it first and at the beginning of the disk? Can you show
us the output of your partitioning setup with ‘fdisk -l’? Also what
error(s) do you get from Grub during the installation?
Be sure /boot is the first partition on the drive and is only a couple
hundred MB at most (unless you want it bigger, but there’s generally no
reason for it to be bigger).
Good luck.
elmarculin wrote:
> I’ve already tried to create a boot partition but they do not work .
>
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During installation, when install bootloader I receive “Cannot mount selected partition”…
With fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/cciss/c0d0'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 3000.4 GB, 3000490123264 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364788 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT
and with parted
GNU Parted 1.8.8
Using /dev/cciss/c0d0
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: Compaq Smart Array (cpqarray)
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 3000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 57.6MB 57.6MB ext3 primary boot, , , , , , , , , , ,
2 57.6MB 4359MB 4302MB linux-swap primary , , , , , , , , , , ,
3 4359MB 25.8GB 21.5GB reiserfs primary , , , , , , , , , , ,
thank you
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 00:06 +0000, elmarculin wrote:
> Hello,
> I’ve a RAID partition of 3TB.
> At end of installation Suse 11.0 GRUB don’t load because partitionn
> it’s over 2TB.
> Anyone have a solution for boot grub with 3TB?
> thank you
>
>
A “standard” DOS partition table can’t do >2TB partitions.
You can use a GPT partition table (not sure if grub understands
though)… or better, don’t create such a large single
partition. You could, for example, create a DOS partition
table (normal) and create a /boot and then allocate a 2TB
partition for LVM and another for LVM and then pool both
areas into one volume group… then carve out your 3TB
logical volume (this allows you to use a “standard”
partition table).
However, very large filesystems are evil in general in that
routines like backing up and fsck’ing will take a VERY long
time.
Just fyi…