From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 17:48:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C069716A41F for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:48:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CFB43D49 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:48:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8SHmUxW009013; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:48:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <433AD767.50107@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:48:23 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bogdan Taru References: <20050928171334.GA70500@icomag.de> <433AD437.8050803@centtech.com> <20050928174504.GA70900@icomag.de> In-Reply-To: <20050928174504.GA70900@icomag.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1102/Sun Sep 25 09:04:56 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [bgd@level5.de: invalid geometry for >1TB] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:48:31 -0000 Bogdan Taru wrote: > 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? gpt stand for 'great and powerful tool'. Just kidding. From gpt(8): gpt -- GUID partition table maintenance utility check out the man page for details.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------