Problem with GPT and a 12TB RAID-5 partition

[Garb Dowle]

Hi,

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.

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:

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GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.5.1

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 23437369344 sectors, 10.9 TiB
Disk identifier (GUID): E206388F-7243-4EDF-BE0A-18E4F038DC38
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 23437369310
Total free space is 4029 sectors (2.0 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048            4095   1024.0 KiB  EF02
   2            4096          503807   244.0 MiB   0700
   3          503808     23437367295   10.9 TiB    8E00
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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.

Does somebody know how I can get this working?

Thanks!
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