On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:57:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 4/17/2010 3:12 AM: >> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:24:20 +0200, Israel Garcia wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>>> What PCIe RAID card are you using? >>> Adaptec AAC-RAID card inside a supermicro server. > > Which Apaptec model, specifically? Some of the Adaptec SATA cards are > fakeraid. I want to know if your card is fakeraid or real RAID. That > may have bearing on this issue.
Being a Supermicro server, I doubt it's a "fakeraid" card O:-) OTOH, a fakeraid won't see a big disk of 4 TiB, it would detect/treat each drive separately. >> I wish you the best (similar setup here and bad experience with adaptec >> raid cards) :-( >> >> As per the 4 TiB issue. I just have reviewed the wikipedia article >> about MBR and forgot the limit of 2 TiB for a "bootable" partition. > > I've never run into these issues because I intentionally avoid them. I > always create a small /boot of about 100MB at the start of the disk and > stick the bootloader in the MBR. Every BIOS can handle bootstrapping > such a setup. Yes, that tends to be the better approach. Either "ext2" or "ext3" are the recommended filesystems for GRUB. > I thought the OP originally said he has a separate small /boot, so I'm > still not sure what his exact issue is. Thus what I'm trying to nail > down exactly which Adaptec HBA he's got. Ah, you're right. Then that shouldn't be the problem. I would try, at first place, to make the required partitions from a Gparted LiveCD (System Rescue or similar) before installing the system to see if that helps the installer. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.04.17.13.26...@gmail.com
