[CentOS] 3TB disk with 6.0.4 not booting

Wes James comptekki at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 04:41:09 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Keith Keller <
kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> On 2013-11-05, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:14 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> To boot off of a 3TB disk you require a (U)EFI capable machine which
> >> supports GPT partitions.  There is no way to boot a disk that is 3TB in
> >> size using a BIOS based machine.
> >
> >  It boots fine with os x 10.6.3.
>
> OS X is already aware of UEFI and GPT, so it makes perfect sense that
> it'd boot correctly on its own hardware.  You may wish to consider using
> a tool like rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) or rEFInd
> (http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#installsh) to help
> manage booting linux on your Mac.
>
> --keith
>

I did install refit. I use it all the time with dual boot macs (os
x/windows) in a student lab I have configured.  I installed refit and
enabled it (ran enable.sh in /efi/refit), but for some reason refit does
not even show up when booting.  I pressed alt, to check what I could boot
from, but if I select the "Windows" partition to boot from (windows always
shows there with any other os to boot from), it starts booting, then ends
up with a blinking cursor at the top left.

-wes



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