Install onto 6Tb array

[Scott Long]

Lawrence Farr wrote:
> I'd like to install stable directly onto a 6Tb Areca array, and
> have run out of clues how to do it. In the past I've always
> used a separate boot volume that was small enough for sysinstall
> to work with, but I have no space to fit more drives in this
> chassis. I've tried putting a small partition on the start,
> which boots fine, but screws up the disk sizing as the geometry
> is wrong I guess? tried diskprep, but that gets the gemometry
> wrong as well. Is the only option to use gpt and restore to
> it from another boot device and hope that the bios can boot it? 
> 
> Lawrence Farr
> EPC Direct Limited 
> 

FreeBSD on i386 and amd64 can only boot off of MBR-controller disks.
GPT boot support is only for ia64 (this, btw, would be a great TODO
list or SOC item).  The MBR format can only handle up to 2TB sizes,
and there is no way to get around that.  You should be able to subdivide
the disks into 2 arrays, a small one for booting and a large one for
storing your data.

Scott