Re: 3TB disk hassles

[Tomas Carnecky]

Neil Conway wrote:
> Hi Tom...
>
>  --- Tomas Carnecky <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>
> > I had a GUID partition table (GPT) on my system (x86, normal 
> > mainboard/BIOS etc) and it worked fine. I didn't need a separate boot
> > disk. I used grub as the boot loader. I think if you enable GPT in
> > the 
> > kernel you should be able to boot stright from the big disk.
>
>
> Wow, that's unexpected but encouraging news.  What distro?  Did it
> allow you to go GPT right from the off, or did you have to migrate from
> an MSDOS ptbl to a GPT one after installation?

It was gentoo, and I even think I installed it right onto the GPT disk, 
so no migration. But I'm not sure. You just have to look that your 
kernel supports GPT. I don't know if the kernel from the gentoo livecd 
supports GPT.

Also have a look here how to create GPT partitions:
http://www.google.ch/search?q=site%3Ausefulthings.org.uk+gpt
I think I did it like it's shown there, mklabel, mkpart and mount them.
I don't think I migrated from MSDOS to GPT, because I don't even know 
how it'is possible if you have only one disk with the system on it.

While looking for gentoo GPT support, I found this:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0411.1/0624.html
Looks like CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is enabled by default now on the newer 
kernels.

tom
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