[DragonFlyBSD - Bug #2619] DragonFly 3.6 can't be installed on a 6TB volume

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Issue #2619 has been updated by ftigeot.


This may actually be a mfi-specific issue.

The installer also failed to install DragonFly on a 300GB mfi volume.

I fixed it by running fdisk -BI /dev/mfid0 from a shell.

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Bug #2619: DragonFly 3.6 can't be installed on a 6TB volume
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2619#change-11825

* Author: ftigeot
* Status: New
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: 
* Target version: 
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I tried to install DragonFly on a batch of Xeon E5v2 workstations.
These machines have a 6TB mfid0 boot volume (RAID 5 of 4x2TB disks on a LSI 9260-4i adapter).

The installation fails almost immediately and these messages are shown in a dialog box:

fdisk: WARNING line 1: number of cylinders (726552) may be out of range
(must be within 1-1024 for normal BIOS operation, unless the entire disk is dedicated to DragonFly
fdisk: ERROR: could not adjust partition to start on a head boundary and end on a cylinder boundary.



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