Hey,
setup-storage does create that special partition at the end and places
it at the beginning of the disk physically. As such it should work. I am
currently in the process of overhauling gpt related partitioning. Once
done with that, I'll see if I can reproduce this issue.
Thank you very much :)
Am 09.12.2015 um 16:02 schrieb st...@antizone.net:
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
