hendrik: > Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > > With grub-install I get errors: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot > Partition; embedding won't be possible. > grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID > and LVM install. > april:/farhome/hendrik# > > Evidently there is some kind of incompatibility here. > > What is going on? What can I to do other than continuing to boot from > small BIOS disks?
I have: # file -s /dev/sda /dev/sda: DOS/MBR boot sector, LInux i386 boot LOader; partition 1 : ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,1), end-CHS (0x3ff,254,63), startsector 1, 4294967295 sectors # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Disk model: TOSHIBA MG03ACA3 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 7A22F348-BA09-4E8C-9EE5-D2534E719D7C Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 194559 192512 94M Linux RAID /dev/sda2 194560 1953791 1759232 859M Linux RAID /dev/sda3 1953792 19531775 17577984 8.4G Linux RAID /dev/sda4 19531776 117186559 97654784 46.6G Linux RAID /dev/sda5 117186560 136718335 19531776 9.3G Linux RAID /dev/sda6 136718336 1953124351 1816406016 866.1G Linux RAID /dev/sda7 1953124352 5860532223 3907407872 1.8T Linux RAID # Using lilo and mdraid mirrored partitions, no problems at all. I always use a small /boot partition first, no initrd, self compiled kernel. Hope this helps you. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
