Hi, Michael Kress wrote: >> Try again using a volume that is less than 2TB in size and see >> if it makes a difference? >> > > Just found in the 3ware manual: > "Even though the Linux 2.6 kernel supports partitions larger than 2 TB, > the installers for SuSE and Redhat do not. Turn auto-carving on to prevent > the installation from failing." > Well, it's actually not the installer, but anyways, I'll give it a try and > then give you a feedback! I don't really need partitions > 2TB. > That's exactly how I just solved the issue - in the 3ware BIOS I defined a bootable device of 50GB for the base system and the rest was carved by auto-carving into chunks of 1024 GB. Works like a charm! Thanks for your hints! cu Michael -- Michael Kress, kress at hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L