From: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviu_marin-caea_at_fieldinsights.ro)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2007 - 11:26:09 CET
From: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:26:09 +0200 Message-Id: <200711221226.09356.silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 04:18:17 am Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> Why do you whant to BOOT from this partition? Create /boot partition,
> 200MB, and then make any partitions you want on the rest of the disk.
If he has a large volume and wants to define a partition > 2 TB, then the
partition table has to be GPT. And that is even if the boot partition is 20
MB.
Alternatively, Ron, you could do this:
1. Define in your RAID controller a small volume, like 50 MB. This will
be /boot.
2. Define in your RAID controller a volume with the rest of the space. This
will be / (root partition).
3. Boot with SLES in Rescue Mode and use parted to define the large volume as
GPT and create a partition on it. You have to do this because YaST cannot
partition GPT, only "msdos" tables. This will be the hacking :-) part.
Definitely easier that patching and compiling grub.
4. Install SLES as usual, and set the 50 MB volume as /boot.
I think this should work and is a minor compromise to obtain the large space
you want.
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