From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 03:27:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF49D16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:27:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web11702.mail.yahoo.com (web11702.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D12943D41 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:27:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jefdodson@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 7465 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Nov 2004 03:27:14 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=cGi1TNZqKu1Sz8bLlscNSrIYdlGrVP4IHxFrRNcdcGB4pSaAhumIAv/j8iEt1uEnm7Ak7eFNpJFfihFI/84BV1rkCkyY0Sk7jF7AG+5UpOFBTLn6c8YGvX7+4cn91DTwwwK93EFUNeVk923nT8doQ3iBmRvnaAwTd9Wy1mM3o5Y= ; Message-ID: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.205.68.127] by web11702.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:27:14 PST Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:27:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jef Dodson To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: drive geometry error X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:27:14 -0000 Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive. I get a message saying that the drive geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry. When I try to set the geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error message and the values get set back to the "more likely" values. Everything seems to go fine until I try to commit the installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written to. The drive currently has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the FreeBSD installation, i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS. Also, the MB is an Asus with an AMD Athlon 3200+ processor, if that matters. I've seen lots of posts in various places about problems similar to this, but no real solutions. I also tried a to install a small DOS partition first as I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect. Thanks. Jef __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo