Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Anup Shukla wrote: > ... >> I think its finally got into my head now. :) >> >> From what i understand (after your replies and some more googling) >> GRUB cannot boot from gpt labeled drives. >> So no matter how i partition them, it just wont boot. > > Correct. > >> So finally, i am putting a 300G SATA to act as the "system" drive. >> Then use the other 750G's to be the big RAID 5 Volume (XFS) Yes, thought about it. But DELL PERC does not seem to be able to do that. That is atleast what i have found out till now. Wish it was possible. Just in case, if anyone knows better, please let me know. I have a Dell PE2950 > > That will work. Another way is to see if the raid-controller can present two > volumes from your raid5, one small (for OS) and one big (for gpt large fs). > If this works then you'll get one device on which you can use msdos > partitions and boot from and one (>2T) on which you use gpt (or simply lvm > directly on the device). > > /Peter > > Regards, A.S