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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:45:04 +0200
From: Bogdan Taru <bgd@icomag.de>
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Subject: Re: [bgd@level5.de: invalid geometry for >1TB]
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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