Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-07 Thread Robin Kipp
Hello Shane, Am 06.09.2013 um 15:49 schrieb Shane Johnson : > > I have had problems with the initrd not having the LVM modules loaded in it. > I had to make sure LVM was installed then run: > > update-initramfs -u -k all > > then : > > update-grub > > to get it to play nice with the syste

Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-07 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi Darac, Am 06.09.2013 um 14:45 schrieb Darac Marjal : > > If you're getting an error saying root couldn't be mounted then I'm > assuming that: > - BIOS has found GRUB > - GRUB has found the kernel > - the kernel has booted BUT > - the kernel couldn't find the rootfs, so therefore couldn't star

Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Shane Johnson
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: > > Hi list, > > I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard > drives, I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes > with a capacity gre

Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: > Hi list, > I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard drives, > I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes with a > capacity greater than 2TB require a GPT partition table. Unfortunatel

Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

2013-09-06 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi list, I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard drives, I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes with a capacity greater than 2TB require a GPT partition table. Unfortunately, the server does not support UEFI, and thus can't boot from GPT p