Brand new 2950 Won't Boot

[Todd Lyons]

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:31:48PM -0500, James_Giannoules at dell.com wrote:

>You cannot boot from a *disk* with a capacity greater than 2TB in a BIOS
>environment. If this was an EFI environment (with appropriate boot
>loader) it would work. The partitioning on the disk (logical LBA ranges
>per partition table) are not important to this issue.

EFI seems to reference GPT, correct?  We have a 2.5 TB system that uses
a GPT partition table, but the boot partition is a lowly 10 GB
partition.  At any rate, you can use parted or gparted to blow away the
dos partition table and make a GPT partition table.  Whether you choose
to make it try to boot from that is up to you.  Grub has a patch
floating around that will support GPT, and that patch is built-in if you
happen to be running Gentoo.
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Regards...		Todd
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