Here is the new disk layout. 7 partitions, 6 less than 2TB. Installer will not pass go (NEXT) unless it has a small disk to put the loader on.
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.7.2
Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): B025ABE6-6570-4D80-AA58-13EFE6B98E07 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 2925 sectors (1.4 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 6143 2.0 MiB EF02 2 6144 92166143 43.9 GiB EF00 ext4 3 92166144 184326143 43.9 GiB 0700 4 184326144 276486143 43.9 GiB EF00 ext4 5 276486144 337926143 29.3 GiB 0700 6 337926144 399366143 29.3 GiB 0700 7 399366144 5860532223 2.5 TiB 0700
On 11/04/2011 06:10 AM, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote:
So, apparently, Verne cannot install on a machine with only 3TB
drives.
Probably because GRUB2 can't scribble properly on large drives with 4096 byte sectoring, which is a drum I've been banging for the last 6-8 weeks. It won't under F16, Oneiric, or Asparagus (openSUSE 12.1).
If you don't need the data on your 3TB drive for anything - i.e., if it's available for just fooling around at this point, throw down a new BIOS/MSDOS partition scheme on it, create some partitions and inspect them to see that they're the size and shape you really wanted/expected them to be. Then do the same thing with a GPT. It would not surprise me if your BIOS/MSDOS partitions didn't see every byte on the drive, although that problem may've been fixed in the newer 'parted' version. Rod Smith's 'gdisk' program was able to properly partition my 3TB under openSUSE 11.4 and other distros.
The other problem is that some of the new large drives have 4096 byte sectors but play firmware games and present 512 byte blocks to users.
The upshot is, as Adam alluded to in the test-list thread 'Fedora 16 Final Release Declared GOLD!', there will be a significant enlargement of the test matrix due to the need to test "small" (<2TB) disks with 512 byte sectors, large disks with 4096 byte sectors and large disks with 4096 byte sectors that masquerade as 512 byte sectored drives, plus whatever else comes to market. And, those drives need to be tested with legacy BIOSes (that know only about 512 byte drives with MSDOS partitioning), EFI/UEFI-aware BIOSes, and so forth. Not a fun task!
HTH, and very 73,
Brandy, N1HO
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 11:28 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Here is the new disk layout. 7 partitions, 6 less than 2TB. Installer will not pass go (NEXT) unless it has a small disk to put the loader on.
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.7.2
Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): B025ABE6-6570-4D80-AA58-13EFE6B98E07 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 2925 sectors (1.4 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 6143 2.0 MiB EF02 2 6144 92166143 43.9 GiB EF00 ext4 3 92166144 184326143 43.9 GiB 0700 4 184326144 276486143 43.9 GiB EF00 ext4 5 276486144 337926143 29.3 GiB 0700 6 337926144 399366143 29.3 GiB 0700 7 399366144 5860532223 2.5 TiB 0700
Can you post the anaconda storage.log file? Thanks.