2012/4/25 Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>: > 2012/4/25 Markku Kolkka <markku.kolkka at saunalahti.fi>: >> 24.4.2012 23:52, Boris Epstein kirjoitti: >>> Thanks! I am afraid that will still not address the issue of how I would >>> partition the drive for the installation. >> >> Don't partition it at all, assign the whole drive as a LVM physical volume. > > Is it really possible to boot from 18TB lvm partition? with mbr? with grub? > > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-lvm-diskdruid-manual.html > > well. no? > > "The /boot/ partition cannot reside on an LVM volume because the GRUB > boot loader cannot read it" I think best solution is to slice raid into two volumes in raid manager or install delicated boot disk inside the server, if possible? -- Eero