CentOS - Jan 2015 - CentOS 6.6 64-bit won't install on a 3 TB disk

Hello everyone,

I'm having an issue getting a C6.6 install to work on a 3 TB dual hard 
drive system, raid 0. I'm hoping that someone here can help.

So, I install as normal, but then reboot, and it comes to a grub prompt. 
Going into the system via Linux rescue, I see that most of the files 
dealing with the kernel haven't been installed.

I asked the maker of the server and he said that they have noticed this 
happen recently. A solution is to put the kernel files on a thumb drive, 
and then point the OS to look for them there.

I have yet to try it, but is there a better way to deal with this issue 
that anyone else has done?

Gilbert

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                    ********
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Have you tried manually putting the kernel/initrd files where they are missing
from?

Having said that, relying on this machine as a server seems questionable under
the circumstances. :-)

Lucian

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gilbert Sebenste" <sebenste at
weather.admin.niu.edu>
> To: centos at centos.org
> Sent: Monday, 12 January, 2015 16:13:56
> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6 64-bit won't install on a 3 TB disk
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm having an issue getting a C6.6 install to work on a 3 TB dual hard
> drive system, raid 0. I'm hoping that someone here can help.
> 
> So, I install as normal, but then reboot, and it comes to a grub prompt.
> Going into the system via Linux rescue, I see that most of the files
> dealing with the kernel haven't been installed.
> 
> I asked the maker of the server and he said that they have noticed this
> happen recently. A solution is to put the kernel files on a thumb drive,
> and then point the OS to look for them there.
> 
> I have yet to try it, but is there a better way to deal with this issue
> that anyone else has done?
> 
> Gilbert
> 
>
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> Gilbert Sebenste                                                   
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>
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> I'm having an issue getting a C6.6 install to work on a 3 TB dual hard
>drive system, raid 0. I'm hoping that someone here can help.
1: Is this system booting UEFI or BIOS?
2: Is the disk partitioned with MBR or GPT?
3: Is /boot on its own partition?

3TB drives are larger than MBR and BIOS properly support, so they're 
only really expected to work on a system partitioned with GPT and 
booting via UEFI.  And in that case, /boot and /boot/efi need to be 
individual partitions.