On 04/20/2012 11:08 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic<office at plnet.rs>wrote: > >> On 04/13/2012 06:55 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn< >>> dennisml at conversis.de> wrote: >>> >>>> On 04/12/2012 03:14 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >>>>> Hello listmates, >>>>> >>>>> Here's I am, trying to install Centos 6.2 64-bit on a server with 24 TB >> <snip> >>> By all appearances this is not GPT but rather MSDOS table. And this may >> be >>> bad news overall. See this: >>> >>> >> http://richardjh.org/blog/install-centos-onto-large-partitions-using-gpt-disk-layout/ >>> >>> Boris. >> >> The link you provided is for CentOS 5.0 and GPT, and you are installing >> CentOS 6.2. >> I read somewhere that CentOS 6.x creates/supports GPT tables if Disk is >> larger then 2TB. >> >> - Have you initialized that RAID with MSDOS partition (manually or with >> older/different distro) or was it by CentOS 6.2 installation DVD? >> - What happens if you initialize RAID with GPT? >> >> > > Ljubomir, > > The installation program definitely does not seem to prompt you and offer > you an opportunity to initialize the disk with any disk table format. > > Boris. Yeah, I just read a thread about it in this mailing list: On 04/18/2012 10:18 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > do I need to preboot into a shell or something and use parted before I > can install ? I use a bootable CD with gparted to create the GPT partition table and the partitions. After this, I can boot CentOS and install on the created partitions. Mogens Thread is named "3TB system drive partitioning question", from 2 days ago. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant