[asterisk-users] AsteriskNOW x86_64 install GPT partitions

[Wrinkled Cheese]

CentOS has a known bug in it's installer that will not allow the install
disc to be run in UEFI mode.  They had to re-release their x86_64 version
of 6.3 to resolve the issue.  It's on their website.  I had figured the
latest CentOS - 6.3 - was being used instead of 5.8.

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Wrinkled Cheese <wrinkledcheese at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> I had to run the disc in rescue mode and run fdisk.  This allowed me to
> create a new partition table in MBR/Legacy mode.  This resolved the issue.
>  It was a 500GB disk that previously had FreeBSD on it.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:31 AM, <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Wrinkled Cheese wrote:
>>
>>  Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm having an issue installing AsteriskNOW 2.0.2 on a Dell server.  When
>>> I
>>> go to install it, with BIOS legacy mode for partition tables, I get as
>>> far
>>> as setting up the partition tables.  However, the installer then informs
>>> me
>>>
>>> that GPT partition table schemes are required and that I have to resolve
>>> the issue.
>>>
>>> I changed from BIOS/MBR/Legacy mode to GPT/UEFI boot mode but then the
>>> installer fails to install.  Upon investigation it seems that this is a
>>> fault of the CentOS installer.
>>>
>>
>> What makes you think Centos is at fault?
>>
>>  There must be a work around to this issue
>>> since it seems that the partition tables require GPT mode but the
>>> installer
>>> for the x86_64 disc don't support UEFI mode.o
>>>
>>
>> How big are your partitions? The only reason Centos requires GPT is if you
>> have a partition larger than 2TB.
>>
>>
>>  Does anyone know of a work around or solution to this problem?
>>>
>>
>> If your partitions are not over 2 TB then you do not need GPT. The 2TB
>> limit
>> is not a Centos limitation. It is a limit of the msdos boot block. This
>> also
>> affects Windoze.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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