Lawrence Farr wrote: > I'd like to install stable directly onto a 6Tb Areca array, and > have run out of clues how to do it. In the past I've always > used a separate boot volume that was small enough for sysinstall > to work with, but I have no space to fit more drives in this > chassis. I've tried putting a small partition on the start, > which boots fine, but screws up the disk sizing as the geometry > is wrong I guess? tried diskprep, but that gets the gemometry > wrong as well. Is the only option to use gpt and restore to > it from another boot device and hope that the bios can boot it?
I am afraid so... 6TB is way too large for MBR to manage (which can support 4TB at maximum). Cheers, -- Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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