From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 7 11:33:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA03814 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:33:14 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA03807 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:33:07 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id GAA02228; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 06:30:13 +1100 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 06:30:13 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199502071930.GAA02228@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu Subject: Re: Kernel panic with latest SNAP Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Well, I then tried to reinstall, and then noticed that when I brought up >Fdisk, it said my geometry was 2810c/4h/94s. I had a hard time convincing >it that my geometry was indeed 2800c/4h/94s (as reported by the drive). It should be impossible to convince fdisk of this, because the partition table format cannot support more that 63s (or 256h, or 1024h; however it is safe to exceed 1024h in some cases). >Finally, I simply installed DOS after which it decided my geometry was >516c/32h/64s, which I could live with. So, I reinstalled, which went >fine, and I then tried to boot from the hard drive: You probably meant 64h/32s. 64s doesn't work. This is the correct solution using fdisk too. For all SCSI drives of size 1G or smaller, use the geometry `m'c/64h/32s, where `m' is the size in MB. For larger sizes up to 8G, it is probably best to increase the number of heads and sectors subject to the above limits. Bruce