After installation VM fails to boot in VMWare using disk greater than 2TB

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Issue

  • After installation VM fails to boot reporting Operating system not found.

  • During installation anaconda complains

WARNING
You are using a GPT bootdisk on a non-EFI system, This may not work, depending on your BIOS's support for booting from GPT disks.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • VMware
  • Disk >2TB

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