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

Bogdan Taru bgd at icomag.de
Wed Sep 28 10:13:35 PDT 2005


	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?

 Thanks,
 bogdan


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