[Cialug] Gpt drives and management tools

Aaron Porter atporter at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 14:17:08 CDT 2007


On 7/3/07, Tom Pohl <tom at tcpconsulting.com> wrote:
> My problem must have been Dell related.  The server came with 3
> virtual drives and I though, "That's silly".  So I re-partioned it
> into 1 6T drive and sure enough, I had problems booting after the
> install completed, but once I put it back the way they had it and
> added the 3 virtual drives the the LVM everything worked great.  This
> was CentOS 5.0.

There could certainly be a RAID card limitation. Also as I mentioned
neither LILO or GRUB will boot of a > 2TB logical device.


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