Freshly installed CentOS does not boot from Dell's Perc H700 RAID

Question

Installed a fresh CentOS 5.10 installation on RAID5 provided by Perc H700 Integrated RAID, however the system fails to boot.

Checked the system via recovery CD, and noticed that CentOS 5.10 now uses GPT instead of MBR. Updated H700 to latest firmware version, same result.

Previous version of CentOS (5.x circa 2011) worked just fine on this server.

Any idea how to make the RAID recognize the partition / boot record and start the system?

Um, how large were the drives? – ewwhite Sep 24 '14 at 04:42 — ewwhite, Sep 24 '14 at 04:42
3TB each, if I remember correctly – SyRenity Jan 01 '15 at 19:51 — SyRenity, Jan 01 '15 at 19:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 24 '14 at 02:48

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Solved by splitting to two VD's, one small with just enough space to contain the boot partition, and the other with the rest of partitions.

answered Sep 24 '14 at 02:48

SyRenity

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