Jon,
I have had the same problem. You should double-check that the non-80 GB
volume has a GPT type partition table set. To see your current partition
table setting, run parted /dev/<your_volume> and then "print." You
should see something like this:
parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sde: 0.000-2626094.625 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
1 0.017 2626093.625 ext3
I've noticed that Red Hat's Anaconda will create an MS-DOS partition
table on the disk even though MS-DOS partition tables cannot support
greater than 2 TB volumes. You can use "parted" to change it to GPT via
the mklabel option. Then you can create the ext3 file system.
--
Jess Cannata
Advanced Research Computing &
High Performance Computing Training
Georgetown University
Jon Forrest wrote:
I thought maybe some of you cluster people might have
seen this.
I have a brand new machine that will be the frontend
of a cluster. It has a 3ware 9650 12-port RAID controller
with 12 1TB drives attached.
I used the "Boot Volume" feature in the RAID controller
to make an 80GB boot volume. I install CentOS 5.2 x86_64
on this and everything installed fine, except ...
When I boot the newly installed machine it stops in
the grub prompt. If I type by hand the commands in
/etc/grub.conf (which I saw by booting from a rescue CD),
the first command "root (hd0,0)" shows that an ext3 partition
was recognized, as it should. However, when I enter the
"kernel ...." command, I get the following error message:
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
What's weird about this is that the root file system starts
on cylinder 1, as confirmed by the fdisk command. This is
using a brand new SuperMicro X7SBE motherboard with the
newest BIOS.
What's even weirder is that the integrator that I purchased
the system from somehow managed to install CentOS 5.
I saw it boot the first time I turned on the system.
I deliberately wiped it out. Needless to say, I have
a message in to them.
Any ideas could cause this?
Cordially,
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