Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 06:37:38 -0400 (EDT) From: david lawrence hoenig <gineoh@engin.umich.edu> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Can't install 2.0-RELEASE on EIDE HD Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9503170638.A24278-0100000@steam.engin.umich.edu>
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Hello- I have read all the newsgroups on freebsd and I didn't see anything on this so I'm asking you. I just got a DELL P75 w/ EIDE 1.0 gigabyte hard drive. Here's the default CMOS geometry: cylndrs heads sectors size 525 64 63 1083 megabytes problem is FreeBSD says it can't handle 64 heads and reverts to 16 in which case it will then not boot from the hard disk. I have tried setting the cmos to 16 heads and 2100 cylinders which seems to work for BSD and allows me use of the entire disk, but then the DOS partition doesn't work. I have tried writing my own partition table with different geometry for the two partitions with little success. I was able to get BSD to boot from the Hard disk, but dos would always have to be booted from a floppy, and the two partions only totaled 800 of my 1000 megs. It seems others would have encountered this problem and there must be an easy fix that I am missing. Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated. -David Hoenig
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