On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 05:31, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
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...
Splitting the array will only work if by that you mean having multiple arrays (showing up as separate "disks"), one of which is <2TiB. The problem isn't that grub has a problem with >2TiB disks directly, it's that you can't use an msdos disk label on a disk >2TiB -- you must use gpt. And neither grub nor lilo understand gpt disk labels.
Can you boot a system like this from a CD? If so, are there any instructions for making one that would have the usual contents of /boot, including the potentially custom initrd image? Seems like a useful thing to be able to do even on smaller systems.