Bug#642179: debian-installer: Installs on drives larger than 2.19TB fails with older bios
On 03/02/2014 03:23 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Control: tag -1 - d-i squeeze
This is from quite a while ago - There have been changes to grub2 and many other tools in the mean
time. There are two issues - one is bios limitations on some MBs and the other is the need to use
GPT for the partition table on large TB drives.
I have some notes on this here:
http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/EFI_UEFI_GUID_GPT_and_large_TB_partitions
One can sometimes work around the BIOS issues by changing to coreboot on supported MBs.
I have not tested this with wheezy as my preferred set up now uses a raid of SSHDs for the / (system
files) and only /home is on the large drives.
Your question should be if the install images support GPT - and that I don't know. Hope I've helped.
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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