[asterisk-users] AsteriskNOW x86_64 install GPT partitions

[Wrinkled Cheese]

The issue was that the disk was already in GPT mode.  I had to convert it
to MBR/Legacy mode.

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Wrinkled Cheese <wrinkledcheese at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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