Can't boot from 1TB array

[Rudy Gevaert]

Marc Giger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a shiny new PowerEdge 840 with an SAS 5IR Controller.
> Attached to the controller are 4 1 TB Disks and configured as two mirrored volumes of 1 TB each.
> I installed ubuntu 8.04 on it with the following disk layout:
> 
> sda1 /boot ~250 MB in size
> sda3 extended part
> sda5 lvm
> 
> After the installation finished I tried to reboot but the maschine just displays
> 
> Booting from local disk...
> 
> and nothing more apears on the screen, but I can see that some sporadic disk access occurs.
> It seems grub is searching for its stages...
> 
> After 15 minutes I rebooted into the ubuntu rescue system from cd and verfied that grub
> is installed correctly. All seems to be fine. 
> 
> What could the problem be?

support for big disks in GRUB.  Make two logical disks and put on the 
small one your OS.

Rudy

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