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Bug#642179: debian-installer: Installs on drives larger than 2.19TB fails with older bios



Control: tag -1 - d-i squeeze

Hi Karl,

Karl Schmidt <karl@xtronics.com> (2011-09-22):
> This is failing with the current squeeze installer that uses grub2.
> 
> What I don't know is if this is possibly a BIOS issue - my
> understanding is that Debian takes over and uses its own driver.
> 
> This is on a Tyan S7002 which uses:
> 
> # lspci |grep SATA
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
> 
> for the SATA controller.
> 
> I'm attempting a workaround - I'm installing the main system on a
> 40GB raided pair of SSD and will have /homes on large (> 2.18TB )
> drives. I will partition the large drives with gparted and use GPT.

are you experiencing similar issues with wheezy installation images?

Mraw,
KiBi.

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