[olug] OT: Setting LBA on a Compaq DL320 G2?

[Jay Swackhamer]

Do you have a separate boot/root filesystem?

If you setup /boot as a separate filesystem of ~100MB(whatever you  
want to store kernels) on the first part of the drive, it will not  
matter what size drive you are using, because the kernel will take  
over once loaded.

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Quoting Shannon <ridgid at gmail.com>:

> just a few things I found poking around the net
>
> use grub to force use of LBA
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub_002dinstall.html
>
> are you using the drivers from HP for the controler
> I dont know if this is what your looking for
>
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=316525&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I25287&prodNameId=3288089&swEnvOID=1097&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=2
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> I lost an 80GB IDE disk in one of our webservers, and the only thing our
>> LAN
>> guy had to replace it was a 250GB IDE.  The DL320 (2nd Generation) will
>> only
>> see a bit over 130MB, but it let me install SLES.  After the install I had
>> a
>> grub GEOM error,  and first thing I'm supposed to do to correct it is
>> enable
>> LBA.  I dont see a setting in the BIOS or the Smart Start CD?   Any
>> pointers?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Dave
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