Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 at 2:18pm, Jon Forrest wrote
Be that as it may, I consider this a bug in the 3ware BIOS.
Every modern motherboard BIOS I've seen in the last 5 years,
at least, has no problem booting from gigantic root partitions.
Why should the 3ware BIOS be any d
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 at 2:18pm, Jon Forrest wrote
Be that as it may, I consider this a bug in the 3ware BIOS.
Every modern motherboard BIOS I've seen in the last 5 years,
at least, has no problem booting from gigantic root partitions.
Why should the 3ware BIOS be any different? I've opened
a case
As several people suggested, the weird CentOS install
problem I described last week was solved by using a separate
small /boot partition. I used a 100MB partition.
On the other hand, I do not understand why this made
a difference. I originally had a root partition that
started on cylinder 1, as s
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Jon Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt Lawrence wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Jon Forrest wrote:
>>
>>> 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 SuperMicr
Jon,
I just re-read your message more carefully and you may have a different
problem if you didn't try to set up the non-80 GB volume in Anaconda.
Are you using a /boot partition on the 80 GB volume? If not, I would try
that first like the others have said.
Jess
Jess Cannata wrote:
Jon,
I
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/ and then "print." You
should see something like this:
parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sde: 0.000-2626094.625
Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Jon Forrest wrote:
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.
I suggest you create a /boot partition of abou
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, 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 contr
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 inst
