yes but using gpt and creating a small partition at the beginning of the drive is supposed to fix that (1MB partition with the right partition
type), i did it manually before on other machines (with my own dhcp/pxe script, before i knew about FAI) i was pressed by the time for installing this server so i didn't dig more into this, but i'm pretty sure it's possible (i might be wrong though) On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 15:51:52 +0100, Kerim Güney <kgue...@uni-koeln.de> wrote: > Hi Dann, > > Could it be that it's causing problems, because MBR's don't support > partitions greater than 2TB? > > From Wikipedia: > > Protective MBR - Same as a normal MBR but the 64-byte area contains > a single 0xEE type Primary partition entry defined over the entire size > of the disk or in case of >2 TiB, upto a partition size of 2 TiB. > > Best regards > Kerim > > On 09/12/15 15:10, st...@antizone.net [1] wrote: > > > > Hi > > i'm sending this email for Kerim as advised by Mrfai. No answer needed > :) > > i have an issue when trying to create a single root partition on a > raid5 array of 3.7TB > > here's the disk_config : > > # > > disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid > > primary / 100% ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro > primary swap 32G swap sw > > when the system boot, it fails to boot from the mbr and drops to grub > rescue. > running rescue command like insmod linux fails with an error message > which i didn't wrote sorry, but it's easily reproducible i suppose. > > i worked around the issue by creating more partitions not exceeding 2TB > > i'm available for more information if needed. > > thanks > Dann
