Re: >2TB volume boot problem

[Carlos Knowlton]

Carlos Knowlton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a 3Ware 9500 12 Harware RAID controller that is full of 25GB 
> S-ATA drives 

oops, that's supposed to be "250GB drives", sorry about that.

> (total storage = 2.75TB).  To my 64bit FC3 box, this looks like a 
> single huge SCSI disk (/dev/sda).  At first there was no way to 
> partition this huge beast, but then [cue fanfare] I found parted!!  
> needless to say, this worked well by using GPT labels (good job 
> parted-guys!).  However, grub doesn't recognize GPT.
> So here's my question:  Does anyone know a way to boot from huge 
> volumes (where "huge" =  >2TB)?   even if it doesn't involve grub, or 
> GPT, I'm open to suggestions.  Anybody?
>
>
> Thanks!
> Carlos Knowlton
>
>
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