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

[Eric Anderson]

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?

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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