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 <wrinkledche...@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, <m...@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, >> >> -- >> Tom m...@tdiehl.org Spamtrap address >> me...@tdiehl.org >> >> -- >> ______________________________**______________________________**_________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: >> http://www.asterisk.org/hello >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> >> http://lists.digium.com/**mailman/listinfo/asterisk-**users<http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users> >> > >
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