Hot can I get RetroPie(HyperPie) working on a 3TB HDD?

[PeterNL070]

I am trying to get RetroPie working on a seagate 3.5" 3TB HDD by using the following tutorial

But when I try the following steps:

• sudo parted /dev/sda
• mktable msdos
• mkpart primary fat32 0% 100M
• mkpart primary ext4 100M 100%

I get an error after: mkpart primary ext4 100M 100%: Error: partition length of 5860337664 sectors exceeds the
msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295

This is very frustrating, as before I tried with Etcher to directly copy it onto the HDD but as a result RetroPie didn't found my plugged in keyboard and fightstick.

I am using macOS

[mitu]

@peternl070 A MSDOS Mbr does not support drives of this size, you need to initialize the drive with a GPT partition table before formatting anything on it - see https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html

You might consider that a FAT32 partition cannot be more than 2TB - so I'd advise to create the FAT32 parition smaller.

[PeterNL070]

So create 1 partition using GPT and boot by microSD to that partition?

Or can do as I did but instead make msdos table make GPT?

[mitu]

@peternl070 just create a GPT table instead of msdos one and then issue the other commands. Looking at the video I see that the fat32 partition is 100Mb and the rest is ext4, so as far as my comment above about fat32 doesn't apply.

[PeterNL070]

So Can follow the entire tutorial except mktable msdos must be mktable gpt
and after create the fat32 and ext4 partition like mentioned?

The fat32 partition is to make the external HDD bootable by USB.