Grub, EFI and 2.2TB partitions
Chris
chris1.noreply at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 12 10:02:13 UTC 2008
Hi,
I've got a problem which seems to be related to EFI GPT. I've
installed Fedora 9 to a small PATA hard disk and all is well, but I
then added a 3Ware RAID card containing a 3 Terabyte RAID 0 array.
Upon booting, the 3 Terabyte array gets split into 2 volumes - 1 is
/dev/sdb which is 2.2TB in size and contains /dev/sdb1 which is an EFI
GPT partition, and another which contains the remaining storage and is
/dev/sdc.
I really just wanted one large disk which I will be using as a raw
block device (for various reasons!). i.e. /dev/sdb should be a single
device of 3TB containing no partitioning. On non-EFI motherboards this
works fine. Any ideas as to how I can get the same behaviour on this
EFI-based motherboard?
Here's the relevant bit of output from "fdisk -l".
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util
fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdb: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255040 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 266305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 266306 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdc'! The util
fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdc: 1800.9 GB, 1800933474816 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 218095 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 266306 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT
Thanks, Chris.
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