Re: [CentOS] booting from a +2TB disk

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?

Just create a small 100-200mb partition for /boot and it will work fine. The root filesystem can be on the larger partition without any problems as long as /boot is in a <2TB partition it will be happy.

Cheers,