xerces8
December 15th, 2013, 12:34 AM
As the old thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1657961) is closed, I continue here.
Hi!
With 2TB and 3TB drives available, how is the support from the Ubuntu side?
Anyone tried?
Developers?
Regards,
David
I just tested Ubuntu 13.10 x64 in a VirtualBox v4.3.4 virtual PC and:
- it installs
- hangs at boot
It drops into a grub rescue shell, with error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
I also tried Fedora 19 and it works fine, so I compared the partitioning and the reason is obvious:
- Fedora uses a /boot partition
- Ubuntu creates one big root filesystem partition
So I reinstall and instead of automatic partitioning I changed the existing partitions (the leftover of the first installation) manually:
- removed /
- add a 1GB /boot partition
- re-add / after the /boot parition
This way it works fine.
Not sure where exactly the bug lies.
PS: Windows 8 also works, but uses MBR/MSDOS partitioning and creates a 2TB partition (and one small boot partition, Windows calls is "System" partition).
Hi!
With 2TB and 3TB drives available, how is the support from the Ubuntu side?
Anyone tried?
Developers?
Regards,
David
I just tested Ubuntu 13.10 x64 in a VirtualBox v4.3.4 virtual PC and:
- it installs
- hangs at boot
It drops into a grub rescue shell, with error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
I also tried Fedora 19 and it works fine, so I compared the partitioning and the reason is obvious:
- Fedora uses a /boot partition
- Ubuntu creates one big root filesystem partition
So I reinstall and instead of automatic partitioning I changed the existing partitions (the leftover of the first installation) manually:
- removed /
- add a 1GB /boot partition
- re-add / after the /boot parition
This way it works fine.
Not sure where exactly the bug lies.
PS: Windows 8 also works, but uses MBR/MSDOS partitioning and creates a 2TB partition (and one small boot partition, Windows calls is "System" partition).