Re: [bgd@level5.de: invalid geometry for >1TB]

From: Bogdan Taru (bgd_at_icomag.de)
Date: 09/28/05

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    Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:45:04 +0200
To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>

    On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:34:47PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
    > Bogdan Taru wrote:
    > > Hi hackers,
    > >
    > > tryin' to install 4.11 or 5.x on a Dell box with a Perc 3/Di Raid
    > >controller (with 5x 300GB scsis). I get 'invalid geometry' when running
    > >sysinstall/fdisk on the 'disk', the geometry presented being:
    > >
    > > 145815 cyl / 255 heads / 63 sectors
    > >
    > > I tried to press 'A' for allocate the whole disk, and after several more
    > >warnings it did that, but now the 'free' space in the list has a big minus
    > >value as 'Offset'. Is that a problem?
    > >
    > > What should I do in order to get fbsd on this box? Change geometry? Any
    > >other hacks/workarounds?
    >
    > Have you tried using gpt to partition it?

     Hm. What's gpt?

     bogdan
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