Brand new 2950 Won't Boot

[Sturgis, Grant]

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.
> 
> 6x500GB RAID-5 == ~2.5TB (roughly, ignoring 1024 vs 1000 and metadata
> area reservation)
> 
> You need to delete the RAID-5 and create a new smaller volume for
> booting and use the rest for whatever.
> 
> You can slice the RAID-5 into two logical disks if you want.
> 
> --
> Jim

Quite correct, thanks Jim.  Split the disks into 2 RAID arrays, and it 
works fine now.

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