Error on Line 530

[marco114]

Hello, I am setting up a new piece of hardware:

Supermico Case w/ Integrated Motherboard
2 x Quad Core 2 (2.5 Ghz Processors)
16GB Ram
4 x 1TB SATA Hard Drives in RAID 5 configuration
Adaptec SATA RAID Controller 5805

I only get through the first few steps. It detected the RAID as a single drive just fine, but as soon as it starts to partition, it stops and says there is an error on line 530.

I tried to hit ALT + F2 but it doesn't work, only option is to reboot or abort, but both do the same thing.

 

[dietmar]

Any MBR based system is limited to 2TB. Make a RAID 10 then you are below that limit.

- Dietmar

 

[marco114]

bummer, ok. seems like that needs to be addressed at some point as we get stronger and stronger hardware, that's a big limitation.

 

[marco114]

Config_lbd?

I found this Googleing...

Breaking 2TB - Use Linux with CONFIG_LBD enabled. Most Linux file systems are capable of partitions larger than 2 TB, as long as the Linux kernel itself is. Most Linux distributions now have kernels compiled with CONFIG_LBD enabled (Ubuntu 6.10 does, for example.) As long as the kernel is configured/compiled properly, it is straight-forward to create a single 4TB EXT3 (or similar) partition.

I don't know if this is possible but it may be an option in the next build? Thanks!

 

[dietmar]

there is no such option in 2.6.24 (CONFIG_LBD - which file?)