Hi
just picked up a 51645 adaptec - having some problems with the gui can't login and if I try and boot of the adaptec lun it crashed grub - magic failed. A On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:57:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > Camaleón put forth on 4/17/2010 3:12 AM: > >> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:24:20 +0200, Israel Garcia wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> > >>>> What PCIe RAID card are you using? > >>> Adaptec AAC-RAID card inside a supermicro server. > > > > Which Apaptec model, specifically? Some of the Adaptec SATA cards are > > fakeraid. I want to know if your card is fakeraid or real RAID. That > > may have bearing on this issue. > > Being a Supermicro server, I doubt it's a "fakeraid" card O:-) > > OTOH, a fakeraid won't see a big disk of 4 TiB, it would detect/treat > each drive separately. > > >> I wish you the best (similar setup here and bad experience with adaptec > >> raid cards) :-( > >> > >> As per the 4 TiB issue. I just have reviewed the wikipedia article > >> about MBR and forgot the limit of 2 TiB for a "bootable" partition. > > > > I've never run into these issues because I intentionally avoid them. I > > always create a small /boot of about 100MB at the start of the disk and > > stick the bootloader in the MBR. Every BIOS can handle bootstrapping > > such a setup. > > Yes, that tends to be the better approach. Either "ext2" or "ext3" are > the recommended filesystems for GRUB. > > > I thought the OP originally said he has a separate small /boot, so I'm > > still not sure what his exact issue is. Thus what I'm trying to nail > > down exactly which Adaptec HBA he's got. > > Ah, you're right. Then that shouldn't be the problem. > > I would try, at first place, to make the required partitions from a > Gparted LiveCD (System Rescue or similar) before installing the system to > see if that helps the installer. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.04.17.13.26...@gmail.com > >
