[CentOS] strange partitioning problem

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?
>
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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.