On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:07:21AM -0400, Peter Arremann wrote:
On Friday 02 September 2005 22:26, Akop Pogosian wrote:
I have been trying to install CentOS 4.1 on a new server today. The installation went fine but the system doesn't boot. It doesn't even get to the Grub screen. The system has a 3ware 9500 series controller and 12 250GB SATA disks which are configured for RAID5 with one hot spare. I searched on the web and noticed that this is a Grub (and Lilo) limitation. Is there any way around it other than setting up a smaller RAID device?
Grub has a 2TB limitation - always did... even the latest 1.90 release still has that issue. The only reasonable ways to get around that is to split your array into <2TB pieces or to get another disk for booting...
Lilo has the same issue - so you're not gonna be very happy.
Peter.
Oh, I see. Thanks all for replies. I guess I'll just take two 250GB disks out of RAID5 and create a mirror out of them for system disk which means we're going to lose ~250GB of starage capacity :/
-akop