Error "msdos labels do not support devices that have more than 4294967295 sectors" appears during installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5

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Issue

  • During the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 on a 3 TB disk, following error appears
"Your boot partition on disk using GPT partitioning scheme but this machine cannot boot using GPT".
  • Also ran the following command as per the KCS 54574
# parted /dev/sda -s mklabel msdos
  • But it returns an error,
"msdos labels do not support devices that have more than 4294967295 sectors"
  • What does it mean? How to by-pass this message?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • Disk with more than 2.2 TB capacity.

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