Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: alissa bader <molbloo@interport.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: disk geometry on a 133mHz amd machine? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981129164752.16505A-100000@interport.net>
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hi there, I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my installation queries. As it turned out, I had bad ram. I just swapped the ram around and it installed with no problems. Yay... Now I am having a problem with the system hanging at startup. It stops at "F" and asks you to type something--this is detailed in the faq, so I'm not going to get into further describing it. Anyway, according to the faq, I have a problem with my disk geometry--i have a big drive (a quantum fireball se 2.1 gig, to be exact) and I think my bios might not be set to handle it. (I'm running american megatrends bios, version from 5/16/96). I spoke with quantum tech support and I did enter the bios settings correctly. However, in the faq it mentions that I should set it to read 504 megs if I have problems like this? (bit confused here). If this is the case, how do I get it configured as such? How do I get my disk geometry all nice and happy? oh yeah, hardware check: my machine has a 586 133mHz amd processor, a mitsumi 32X cdrom, 8 megs of ram, generic 3.5 floppy drive. it's also got a headland video card (not sure of the exact specs) and yes, a quantum fireball se drive, 2.1 gigs. I'm trying to install freebsd 2.2.6 (yeah, I'll make it 2.2.7 soon as I get the machine up and connected to the net). Oh, and it's an ide drive. I'm running strictly ide now. I'll switch to scsi later. thanks in advance for all your help! --alissa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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