3TB HDD as main drive?

[ml.sail1]

Hey guys,

So I followed TooSixty’s guide for installing Lion on my new system:

Intel Core i7 2600K
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
Sapphire Radeon 6870
12GB Corsair RAM (2x2+2x4) @ 1600MHz
3TB Seagate Barracuda HDD

but when I try and boot from directly from the HDD I get:

boot0: GPT
boot0: test
boot0: test
boot0: GPT
boot0: test
boot0: test
boot0: error_

I have been trying to find a solution and I think my problem may be that I am trying to use a 3TB drive for my main installation. Can anyone verify any truth to this?

Thanks

 

[shunu2565]

Hey there!

See the 'boot0:error thing' on my blog...
I'm pretty sure that it can solve your problem..

http://www.mymac4music.com/2011/10/boot0-error/

 

[Going Bald]

Hey guys,

So I followed TooSixty’s guide for installing Lion on my new system:

Intel Core i7 2600K
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
Sapphire Radeon 6870
12GB Corsair RAM (2x2+2x4) @ 1600MHz
3TB Seagate Barracuda HDD

but when I try and boot from directly from the HDD I get:

boot0: GPT
boot0: test
boot0: test
boot0: GPT
boot0: test
boot0: test
boot0: error_

I have been trying to find a solution and I think my problem may be that I am trying to use a 3TB drive for my main installation. Can anyone verify any truth to this?

Thanks

Make sure your boot partition is less than 1Tb.

 

[ml.sail1]

Hey there!

See the 'boot0:error thing' on my signature... I'm pretty sure that it can solve your problem..

Thanks!

I'll try this when I get home. I had already follwed the whole "making the drive active" through terminal thing but that didn't quite do the trick so I am hoping this works.

 

[Gordo74]

Any bootloader cannot boot a drive that is more than a 1TB partition. If you partition it to be a 1TB boot partition and 2TB Data, that would work fine.

 

[Orangezorki]

Any bootloader cannot boot a drive that is more than a 1TB partition. If you partition it to be a 1TB boot partition and 2TB Data, that would work fine.

While that is a perfectly acceptable way of getting it to work, bear in mind that if you are using both the partitions at the same time, as you will be if you have the boot and data on the same drive, you might be hammering the HD. Maybe a small SSD would work better?

David

 

[ml.sail1]

Success!

Haha so I finally got it to work based on your intructions.

I realized what I was doing wrong-and what a stupid mistake- I wasn't booting from my Unibeast Flash Drive and instead was trying to do while booted into the OS on the HDD. Dumb mistake but it works now.

Thanks!