Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:05:36 -0500 From: Robert Nestor <rnestor@mac.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Missing Docs in 7.0? Message-ID: <48C0FDC5-CE91-49FB-B0A6-2EDF4F1A35AB@mac.com>
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While attempting to install 7.0 on a system, the Disk Partition Editor complains that the disk geometry isn't correct and refers the user to the Hardware Guide in the Docs for information about setting the correct geometry. There doesn't appear to be anything in the Hardware Guide that addresses this issue. Details follow: While sysinstall and the Disk Partition Editor defaults to a geometry that works for the installation, even on a system with multiple disk partitions, it doesn't allow the user to over-ride these settings. The values used by sysinstall do work for the installation but they appear to hose QEMU if one tries to boot a virtual system from a real disk partition. In my case sysinstall reports 24321/255/63, ide_conf reports 16643/255/63 from the BIOS and 16383/16/63 from the Controller, and pfdisk reports 1024/255/63 for the disk. The disk is a 200Gig disk with three partitions, one for Windows, one for FreeBSD and one for Linux. There isn't a 137Gig limitation in my BIOS since I've updated it and all three partitions are bootable and runnable in hardware (using GAG for a Boot Manager). They are unusable with QEMU with FreeBSD as a host, but work with QMEU running under Windows-XP (installed in the first partition). Clearly things have improved in FreeBSD 7.0 since the system will successfully install and run in spite of this Disk Geometry Hell, but it comes at a price! Thanks,
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