Sorry, the previous mail i sent was not correctly quoted. Corrections below. Anup Shukla wrote: > 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) >> >> 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 >> >> 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 Regards, A.S