From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 11 20:49:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA21644 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lserver.infoworld.com (lserver.infoworld.com [192.216.48.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA21638 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:49:05 -0700 (PDT) From: BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com Received: from ccgate.infoworld.com (ccgate.infoworld.com [192.216.49.101]) by lserver.infoworld.com (8.7.5/8.7.3/GNAC-GW-1.2) with SMTP id UAA04448; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:48:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ccMail by ccgate.infoworld.com (SMTPLINK V2.11) id AA845091929; Fri, 11 Oct 96 21:31:14 PST Date: Fri, 11 Oct 96 21:31:14 PST Message-Id: <9609118450.AA845091929@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: Jean-Marc BOTTURA , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: geometry problem with 4GB micropolis Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In my experience, any geometry that gets the system to boot is OK. After the kernel loads, the sd driver takes over and sees the SCSI drive as a linear array of blocks -- no geometry information needed. Your best bet is to install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, which virtually any BIOS will load. It will take over the boot process from the BIOS, and it does not have the BIOS's limitations. I just used this technique to install a 2.5 GB IDE drive on an older 486 machine. The machine's BIOS couldn't even fathom a drive that large, and the manufacturer said it would never work.... But it did. --Brett