[CentOS] 3TB disk with 6.0.4 not booting

[Wes James]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:14 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> | As you know I've been testing centos on an old mac pro.  I have 1
> | disk left
> | of 4 that I'm testing on.  I had a 3TB disk and stuck it in and
> | couldn't
> | get centos to boot off of it.  It would install, but not boot.  I
> | then got
> | "old" disk 4 installed with it. Any idea why the 3TB disk doesn't
> | work?  I
> | pulled out an os x 10.6.3 and that would install and boot.  I resized
> | the
> | disk in osx and reinstalled centos, but centos still won't boot off
> | the 3TB
> | disk.
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | -wes
>
> To boot off of a 3TB disk you require a (U)EFI capable machine which
> supports GPT partitions.  There is no way to boot a disk that is 3TB in
> size using a BIOS based machine.
>


 It boots fine with os x 10.6.3.....  Initially, I stuck in the os x 10.6.3
install disk, partitioned the disk, installed os x, then resized the
partition in osx.  Then in the centos  installer I told it to use the open
space on the disk.  It installed, but then would not boot.

-wes