GRUB and +2TiB disk
Hello,
I'm trying to install GRUB in a server with a 3ware 9550SXU-16 RAID
card. There is a unique RAID-5 array formed by 15 SATA disk and one
for hotspare, the total array size it's near 6TiB. This is the
partition scheme:
/dev/sda1 ext3 100MB /boot
/dev/sda2 swap 2GB n/a
/dev/sda3 ext3 5GB /
The rest of the disk is still unused, I'm making some benchmarks with
some filesystems..
This is the output of parted "print" command (fdisk doesn't work with
disks bigger than 2TiB..):
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-6198751.000 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
1 0.017 95.384 ext3
2 95.384 2002.733 linux-swap
3 2002.733 6771.105 ext3
Now the machine boots with the help of LILO 22.6.1-6.2 and kernel
2.6.16-2, but I'm interested to install GRUB. I have make some test
with oficial Sarge GRUB version (0.95), from Backports packages
(0.97) and compiling from the CVS.. and all of them give the same error:
# grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
More test from the GRUB shell:
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xee
grub> setup (hd0)
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
More tests with "find" command:
grub> find /grub/stage1
Error 15: File not found
grub> find /etc/passwd
Error 15: File not found
Googling I have searched that this is a GRUB bug/feature.. and it
can't handle disks bigger than 2TiB..
http://grub.enbug.org/KnownBugs
It's correct? It's not possible to install GRUB in this machine? ;-(
--
Santi Saez
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