Received as a private reply... ----- Forwarded message from Hilario Ortigosa Monteoliva <hilario@octanio.es> ----- From: Hilario Ortigosa Monteoliva <hilario@octanio.es> To: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#507399: bug installation-reports Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:09:43 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-CRM114-Status: Good ( pR: 13.4365 ) El 01/12/2008, a las 6:59, Christian Perrier escribió: > Quoting Hilario Ortigosa Monteoliva (hilario@octanio.es): > >> The system detects de 2.8 TB 'disk' (hardware raid5) and partitions >> it >> with GPT/EFI system. All the process goes OK, but at the step of >> installing grub, it refuses to install (as there is no MBR structure >> on >> the disk). Lilo installs OK, but out of the box it is unable to boot >> large kernels (like the amd-xen kernel image from etch). Several >> workarounds, as trying to use grub-efi from etch-backports was >> unsuccesful. At last, the only 'simple and safe' solution was to re- >> install in a raid vdisk smaller than 2 TB, avoiding the MBR disk size >> limit. > > Do you think that the problems comes from >2TB disks or >2TB > *partitions*? > Disks, as I've seen googling about the problem, or I think so. Anyway, the booting partition has a size less of 2 TB (100 mb in one of the iterations, for /boot) > Otherwise said, what partitioning scheme did you choose for your 2.8TB > disk? > First like this: / 8 GB swap 900 MB /home 2 TB And after the problem happens: /boot 100 MB / 8.5 GB (more or less) /home 1.9 TB (aprox) >> As the info I looked for, I understand that the problem is about >> grub, >> but the installer shouldn't allow to install root/boot partition on a >> disk larger than 2 TB, or at least, showing a warning about the grub >> problem. > > It's very likely that it will not, given the timeframe, but we need to > document this the best way we can. Ok, I think I can reuse one of the poweredge to go again in the scenario. Hilario Ortigosa Monteoliva Gerente hilario@octanio.es Tlf: 951 01 34 29 - 638 39 50 38 Fax: 952 32 13 08 http://www.octanio.es ----- End forwarded message ----- --
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