Thanks, Mark. I will look for the 6.5 download. Don't I have to run the parted -a opt on a RedHat system? Is parted available from the installation DVD? On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:58 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > > I have a Dell PowerEdge T120 with 12 4Tb disks. I want to use the first > > disk as the system disk and the remaining 11 as a raid 5. > > > > I have the first disk set up as a raid 0. I installed RedHat 6.4 server > > software on the first disk. I set up the Dell to use a uefi boot instead > > of bios. However, I cannot boot up the new system as the bios does not > > support the size of the system disk. > > First, update it to 6.5. Like, yesterday. 6.4 will contain things like the > heartbleed bug, etc. > > > > I gather I should set up gpt partitioning instead of the default mbr on > > the first disk. > > > > How do I do this? > > You can either use the gui gparted, or the user hostile parted. Note that > if you do this, you'll probably have to reinstall - is that ok? > > One other option would be to partition disk 0, say, into two 2GB > partitions, and RAID 1 them. Alternatively, what we're doing here for > drives 1TB and over is to make a root partition of 500GB, and the rest as > another partition. > > $ parted -a opt > > mklabel gpt > > mkpart pri (don't be confused - when they say "name, they mean > primary or extended....) > >> start: 0.0GB (will make sure it's actually aligned) > >> end: 100% > > q > will make you one big drive. > > mark > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
