large boot volumes - problem AFTER the bootloader works

[keeptruthfree]

I found for myself how to get Chimera/Chameleon onto large volume sizes.
(dd that boot1h onto the large boot volume when unmounted)
It boots fine - but have I installed my doom?

I find with a 2TB and 3TB boot drive (both SATA 6GB/s drives)
that I get serious directory errors upon almost every boot,
sometimes requiring DiskWarrior (and a new boot1h dd install).
it doesn't matter whether I use the 3GB/s or 6GB/s connector.

Is this something I can avoid? What's the problem?
Should I make partitions of a smaller size?
HELP!!!!

Why can't we use large hard drives?

I have GA-P55A-UD4P
and I'm very happy otherwise

my large hard drive upgrades
are a very consistent disaster.
the problem is very consistent.

 

[Going Bald]

I found for myself how to get Chimera/Chameleon onto large volume sizes.
(dd that boot1h onto the large boot volume when unmounted)
It boots fine - but have I installed my doom?

I find with a 2TB and 3TB boot drive (both SATA 6GB/s drives)
that I get serious directory errors upon almost every boot,
sometimes requiring DiskWarrior (and a new boot1h dd install).
it doesn't matter whether I use the 3GB/s or 6GB/s connector.

Why can't we use large hard drives?

Limitation of the boot loader: boot partition must be less than 1Gb.
Your best fix is a small SSD for OS and apps with your users files on the large volume HDDs.
See Moving OS X /Users to a separate partition [Lnx2Mac's Blog]

 

[keeptruthfree]

this should be in a FAQ somewhere

this should be in a FAQ somewhere
I was suffering

 

[keeptruthfree]

exactly how big do I make the boot partition?

these major disk errors are very difficult to solve
and I find myself repairing the hard drive
outside of the computer with diskwarrior
on EVERY new boot - it makes the computer unreliable

I want to know what size to make the boot partition

I can't be having catastrophic disk problems on every boot,
things disk utility can't handle - needing another computer to repair the drive with disk warrior

I never had these problems with 1TB drives
but now I have 3tb and 2tb drives and catastrophic disc errors

help - I get the problem - but HOW BIG?

 

[Going Bald]

exactly how big do I make the boot partition?

(note: you can also do the following from the desktop by launching disk utility from the applications/utilities folder if you can reach it.)
Boot your install media and at the big black X install screen select the utilities button at the top of the screen. from the drop down select disk utility.
In the left pane of the disk utility screen select your hard drive. In the right pane there is a box on the left showing your drive partitions. If you installed on your large volume drive with one partition it will show only 1 partition. There should be a slight light blue hi-lite at the top showing how much is used.
Click in the box noted above. Click on the + button below the box. The partition box to the right will turn dark instead of being greyed out. type in a name for the partition leave it as Mac OS Extended (journaled). You can either type in the size of the partition or you can look for the small triangle in the lower right corner of the partition box and put your pointer on it, hold down the left mouse button and drag it up to create the partition. Do not intrude into the blue shaded area at the top of the box. If your drive size is 2Tb, make the new partition size 2Tb minus 100Gb. This leaves you a comfortable sized boot partition.