I believe you would need to convert that new partition to GPT (and you need
to boot with UEFI for a > 2 Gb partition.


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Nigel Parker <nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk
> wrote:

> Ok this may be a dumb question but...........
>
> We purchased a new Dell poweredge 520 everything was ok; but Either we;
> or dell had missed something on the config and it was setup as a raid 5
> without a hot spare
>
> No problem just trash the array and recreate it with a hot spare done
> Quick config
> It has 8 x 600 gb drives
> 7 in one array and 1 as a dedicated hot spare
>
> I had to use the Bios boot mode and not the uefi and now the server
> can't use anything other than 2GB
> Started again and selected UEFI boot and put in the del build CD and it
> refuses to boot from this disk
>
> I can boot from the windows 2008 server disk via UEFI but of course the
> drivers are missing for the disk and would prefer to use the dell server
> assist
>
> So........
>
> HELP :-)
> I just want one raid volume with a hotspare
>
> Nigel Parker
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