Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for > 2TiB
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:53:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > However, even if you do use the command line to get around d-i
> > limitations, its still not safe to have /boot on LVM (at least according
> > to all the documentation I've seen).
>
> with lilo it's safe if the LV is created with the continuous flag, for
> grub I'm not sure whether it has LVM support these days, I implemented
> support for LVM1 ~5 years ago but it got lost (and I don't have the
> patch anyore either)
Couldn't the /boot partitition still be moved? If so, that would break
lilo. Even if lilo were re-run after each lvm operation, I doubt lilo
would like /boot winding up above 2TiB.
Grub, according to what I can google out, doesn't support LVM (e.g.,
<http://linux.msede.com/lvm_mlist/archive/2004/05/0047.html>) though it
appears some people are working on a patch
(<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42433>).
[I confess I'm not too familiar with LVM, so please forgive me if I'm
mistaken... I'm trying to understand it through RTFM]
>
> > I believe the only way to use d-i on machines with only > 2TiB disks is
> > to rebuild the kernel to enable EFI GPT.
>
> Or any other of the partition formats that work. E.g. all the SGI Altix
> systems with >2TB volumes (which is probably all of them) use IRIX disk
> labels.
http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/screenshots/057-part-table-type.png
seems to say that's not an option with d-i. I don't remember if it was
there or not, and bochs is proving far too slow to test with.
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