Hi again,<br><br>here is some more information:<br>I now could run "gdisk -l /dev/sda" on the Ubuntu 10.04, which I installed with fai and which is not booting:<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.5.1<br><br>Partition table scan:<br> MBR: protective<br> BSD: not present<br> APM: not present<br> GPT: present<br><br>Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.<br>Disk /dev/sda: 23437369344 sectors, 10.9 TiB<br>
Disk identifier (GUID): EF622145-AA15-406D-924E-EF9D566D5CF3<br>Partition table holds up to 128 entries<br>First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 23437369310<br>Total free space is 29 sectors (14.5 KiB)<br><br>Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name<br>
1 63 409662 200.0 MiB 0700 primary<br> 2 409663 8798270 4.0 GiB 8200 primary<br> 3 8798271 23437369070 10.9 TiB 0700 primary<br> 4 23437369071 23437369310 120.0 KiB EF02 primary<br>
----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>There are a /boot-Partition on 1, a swap-Partiton on 2 and a /-partition on 3 with 11TByte. The fourth partition was added by setup-storage because of the "gpt-bios" disclabel. Unlike the partition table generated by the Ubuntu Installer-CD, the free space is only 29 sectors, the bios-partition is at the end and its size is smaller. <br>
<br>I used following setup-storage config:<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br># <type> <mountpoint> <size> <fs type> <mount options> <misc options><br>
<br>disk_config /dev/sda disklabel:gpt-bios<br>primary /boot 200 ext3 defaults<br>primary swap 4G swap defaults<br>primary / 20G- xfs defaults<br>
----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>The root-nfs, with which the Ubuntu 10.04 was installed has the backported lenny kernel "2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64". Ubuntu 10.04 uses GRUB2, and the loader gets installed with "grub-install /dev/sda".<br>
<br>P.S.: Installing Ubuntu 10.04 with partitions <2TB works like a charm, and we are using it heavily at our company. Thank you for this very useful software!<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Garb Dowle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garb.dowle@gmail.com">garb.dowle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>if I select "gpt-bios" as disklabel in my setup-storage config, then, after installation of a Ubuntu 10.04 Server with FAI 3.3.5 it won't boot. After the BIOS-Screen, there will be only a blinking cursor on a blank screen, and nothing happens.<br>
<br>Installing Ubuntu 10.04 with an Installation-CD on that system works fine. It recognizes my 12TB RAID-5 and adds a 1MByte BIOS Partition. The output of "gdisk -l /dev/sda" on that system shows:<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.5.1<br><br>Partition table scan:<br> MBR: protective<br> BSD: not present<br> APM: not present<br> GPT: present<br><br>Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.<br>Disk /dev/sda: 23437369344 sectors, 10.9 TiB<br>
Disk identifier (GUID): E206388F-7243-4EDF-BE0A-18E4F038DC38<br>Partition table holds up to 128 entries<br>First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 23437369310<br>Total free space is 4029 sectors (2.0 MiB)<br><br>
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name<br> 1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB EF02 <br> 2 4096 503807 244.0 MiB 0700 <br> 3 503808 23437367295 10.9 TiB 8E00 <br>
----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>I noticed, that setup-storage will add the BIOS Partition for GPT always as the last partition. I tried to place it at the beginning of the partition table, so that the partition table will look like that one generated from the Installer-CD, but I wasn't successful.<br>
<br>Does somebody know how I can get this working?<br><br>Thanks!<br>
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