On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 at 8:28am, Chris Mauritz wrote > 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. IME, that won't work. >2TiB disks must have gpt disk labels, and neither grub nor lilo understand those. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University