Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:45:04 +0200 From: Bogdan Taru <bgd@icomag.de> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [bgd@level5.de: invalid geometry for >1TB] Message-ID: <20050928174504.GA70900@icomag.de> In-Reply-To: <433AD437.8050803@centtech.com> References: <20050928171334.GA70500@icomag.de> <433AD437.8050803@centtech.com>
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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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