On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajsand@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
I have a system x3100 m4 system with 64GB SSD for OS and 2x2tb for data as MD device (software RAID).
It had Fedora 17 with EFI/
I tried to install centos 6. deleting the existing partitions on the SSD /dev/sdc.
sda and sdb are the 2x2tb md device mounted on /home.
Did you previously use a md metadata version (in Fedora) that CentOS 6.x doesn't support?
no joy.
So the system doesn't load CentOS at all? Or can't mount /home and has a fit?
More details please in what you mean by "no joy".
googling Questions:
- Where do I locate the boot loader? /dev/sdc? is MBR (the default
with Centos) enough
Does your system BIOS try to boot from /dev/sdc once it finds /dev/sda or /dev/sdb isn't bootable? You might just need to move cables so your SSD becomes /dev/sda.
- Is it necessary to have GPT label and EFI on /dev/sdc?
- Will it affect in anyway sda and sdb (I am not choosing to format them)?
any pointers with information to wrap my head around
FC17 was running fine after I fsck-ed the /dev/sdc4 which had vanished when this box came in.
To my knowlege, a root file system of size 64GB should be handled peacefully by centos.
Yes, the drive size isn't an issue.
GPT comes into picture only on > 2tb partitions for different mountpoints.
Yes, GPT is necessary when partitions are >2TB.
or is it that any system mounting more than 2tb disk as non-root will necessarily need a boot disk with a GPT label and EFI partition?
Am I right or have I got it all wrong?
Any reply and pointers appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-- Regards,
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