Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:32:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Did I screw up? Installing FreeBSD and cylinder boundaries. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612012904.11999m-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9253.897336669@monkeys.com>
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > My friend said that my install was basically broken from the get-go because > I failed to have the one and only non-swap partition that I had requested > to have made be aligned to the exact start of a cylinder boundary. He said > that this was a requirement in cases where I was planning to boot from the > one and only hard drive on the system... i.e. the one I was installing > FreeBSD onto and that the only way that you can get away with having the > FreeBSD root partition _not_ be so aligned was if you would be normally > booting from some other device. I think he really means that you should have installed in compatibility mode instead of dangerously dedicated mode. Some BIOSen don't like dedicated disks (without partition talbes) and barf. Popular culprits are Award and Phoenix BIOSen; the symptom is rebooting gives `read error'. If he has an AMI then he's jumping to conclusions. The cylinder group stuff is a crock, though; modern hard drives lie about their geometry, and FreeBSD doesn't care anyway. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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