create single partition for 3.5 TB

[Silviu Marin-Caea]

On Friday 06 July 2007 11:36:01 pm Sam Flory wrote:
> Fred Skrotzki wrote:
> > One catch is that you can't boot from a GPT labeled device with either
> > grub or lilo.
>
>   That is not entirely true.  It's just a pain in the ass to make it
> work.

Here's the pain, copy&paste from a message I posted to another list:


I have (finally) succeeded in booting SLES9 from a GPT disk with a 3.4 TB 
partition.

* boot Rescue System and save the system on a NFS export
* define the disk as GPT with parted, create partitions
* restore the system
* try to compile grub2, no success
* found Marco Gerards patch for grub 0.97 that adds GPT capabilities
http://files.bitleap.com/software/grub/grub-0.96-gpt_partition_support.patch
* compiled the patched grub on the restored system, still using Rescue System
* /usr/local/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda
* grub loads, but it doesn't want to load initrd, gives error 28, Selected 
item cannot fit into memory
* found another patch that SUSE uses
http://www.nabble.com/attachment/9708953/0/070_all_grub-0.97-initrd_max_address.patch
* it has blood all over it, but it boots and runs.  It will be all right :-)

I didn't mention that I had to use a Driver Update Disk from Dell in order to 
be able to see the full capacity of the volume.  With the driver from SP3, it 
only showed 2 TB.