Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:14:13 +0100 From: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive Message-ID: <opr2ji5zm0o9ijbn@172.16.1.1> In-Reply-To: <opr2ji4uqvo9ijbn@172.16.1.1> References: <bvaum6$8o7$1@sea.gmane.org> <opr2ji4uqvo9ijbn@172.16.1.1>
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------- Forwarded message ------- From: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: rk47 <rk@nanoteq.co.za> Subject: Re: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:13:32 +0100 > > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:37:39 +0200, rk47 <rk@nanoteq.co.za> wrote: > >> Hi FreeBSD'ers >> >> I have a problem with booting from FreeBSD 4.8/4.9 and 5.2, they all >> gave >> the same error. I have an 80Gig Seagate HD with a Pentium 4, Epox >> motherboard and Phoenix version 2.2 BIOS. >> >> When I install FreeBSD from CD it displays a warning stating that my >> disk >> Geometry of 155061/16/63 is not correct and that it will use a more >> likely >> setting (which turns out to be 9729/255/63 in the FDisk menu). > > Let the BIOS probe for IDE devices, and thus it will probe for the proper > geometry. Write down the cylinders/head/sectors and insert it when you're > in the FDISK section of the installation. > > Good luck, > > Jorn
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