Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 at 10:16am, Mark Schoonover wrote > >> I just built up a server running CentOS 4.3, and trying to boot from >> a 3Ware 9550SX-16ML, 16 port card. This system has 9x500GB drives, >> AMD Opteron, Tyan K8SD mobo and 1 GB of ram. I downloaded the latest >> (9.3.0.4) driver from 3Ware, and after a couple of botched attempts, >> I got CentOS installed. In my two botched attempts, the problem was >> X hanging during the formatting of the drives, so I switched to >> another virtual screen while formatting took place, and the system >> didn't freeze. >> >> My problem now is the system won't boot. I know this is not exactly >> a CentOS problem, I'm just hoping some kind sole would help me outta >> this overworked fog I'm in. When the system tries to boot, the >> cursor just sits there in the left corner of the screen flashing. >> Nothing happens. I am probably missing something very simple, that >> will cause me great public embarrassment, but I really don't care >> right now. > > How is your array setup? You can *not* boot from a device >4TiB. On > such a device, you must use a gpt disklabel and neither grub nor LILO > support such. My array size is 4.5TB. It's just one large single RAID5, so it's slightly less than 4.5TB. So, what you're saying then is to either put a small single HD to install CentOS, or make the array smaller than 4.5TB. I could easily make something much smaller, say ~1TB, install CentOS on that. Once that's finished, create the rest of the array as another array at the size that I need. Could use LVM to stitch it all together... I'll give this a try, thanks for the help. Mark