From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 9:27:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3F71555D for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253] (may be forged)) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA69374; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:27:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <034901bf2620$68d59520$bdc3fea9@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Roelof Osinga" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <382054E6.67A72B4D@nisser.com> Subject: RE: disk cylinder count wrong Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:25:22 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, You have to use LBA mode. Have Fun... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Roelof Osinga To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:29 AM Subject: disk cylinder count wrong > I've put together a machine from some parts lying around. Not the most > recent ones. Most notably a 75 MHz Pentium (clocked at 90) on an Intel > Plato MB. The disk is a somewhat more recent Quantum EL 5.1 Fireball. > > This disk has several layouts: > > cyl's hds sec mode > 10602 15 63 NORMAL > 623 255 63 LBA > 662 240 63 LARGE > > I installed 3.3 using FTP with the BIOS set to LARGE addressing mode. > Install went smooth. Although I did notice that fdisk reported the > disk as having NORMAL mode. > > After install was done I proceeded with the reboot. > > Up to the "Default: F1" prompt all went fine. Thereafter all that > happenned was the appearance of a "-" (or "_") below the D from Default > and that was that. > > So, how to proceed. I assume that it is somehow getting the wrong > disk parameters although I would've thought at this point all goes > through the BIOS. > > What I'ld do just as lief is booting through diskettes, telling it > which disk to use and be done with it. However that is not as simple > as it ought to be. I manage to boot and access the fixit disk, but not > more than that. The root still points to some diskette and when you > exit it wants to reboot. > > During the boot process I did manage to list some disk specifics: > > disk1s1a: FFS 40 MB (63 - 81983) > disk1s1b: FFS 132 MB (81983 - 354143) > disk1s1e: swap 20 MB (354143 - 395103) > disk1s1f: FFS 4694 MB (395103 - 10009440) > > Finally, when booting under Linux (floppies) that does detect the > correct BIOS parameters. > > If anyone has some pointers, please be so kind. > > Roelof > > -- > Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message