On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 at 4:11pm, Khusro Jaleel wrote > straight away. I understand what you guys are saying about GPT and not > being able to boot off it, etc but how did I end up in this situation? There's an old saying that Unix gives you enough rope to hang yourself with... > And is this dangerous? Yes. Absolutely yes. One day you'll reboot and your partition table (and all your data) will be gone and unrecoverable. Trust me. > I am thinking that if this is possible, why not try and setup the second > server the same way? But it just feels wrong that Ubuntu allows this and > if CentOS does not, there must be a good reason. And that reason is that it *will* die horribly and eat your data. Set up the small logical drive in the RAID BIOS as another poster detailed so nicely. Now. Before now. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF