Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:30:12 -0400 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Andrea Monaldi <magic_mac_96@yahoo.com> Cc: "David " Sieb rger "" <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot initialize disklabel Message-ID: <20020727193012.CBF107C@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Andrea Monaldi <magic_mac_96@yahoo.com> of "Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:26:42 PDT." <20020727162642.95117.qmail@web21504.mail.yahoo.com>
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--==_Exmh_2135505148P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > David, > = > If I had this it should not work well under Linux and > W2K too, isn't it? > = > Anyway it's not this problem. It works bad ONLY in > FreeBSD. Hey all, Every time I've upgraded any HDD since ~4.2, I've attempted to install Fr= eeBSD directly without using any other OS. Each time, it's failed due to = fdisk using some strange geometry, which the BIOS can't boot from afterwa= rds (they've almost all been "large" drives, all IDE). I had this problem= most recently about a week ago, upgrading my laptop drive to 40GB with a= 4.6-RELEASE CD. The workaround mentioned in the handbook (creating a partition from DOS f= disk first), forces fdisk to use a more correct geometry (well, the BIOS = can boot from it afterwards, so I presume it's more correct :-), and has = never failed to work for me. You can delete or change the type of the partition in sysinstall (I alway= s set up a suspend partition for my laptop, for example), so it's not a b= ig deal for me, but I agree that it's horribly confusing, not well (as in= In-Yer-Face) documented, likely to cause much frustration for first-time= or infrequent installers and it'd be nice if the problem went away or fd= isk just DTRT. There was, IIRC, a thread on how/why complicated this was to do properly = on this very list some months ago. HTH. Cheers, AS --==_Exmh_2135505148P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE9QvTEPHh895bDXeQRAkolAJ9YjjpvY2+sToEEUSv0g7EmLjtPpwCeJGBi oD/YeWRpMhNjg3S3RdwobSQ= =LLxJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_2135505148P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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