Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:25:49 +0200 From: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk geometry confussion Message-ID: <20041019222019.M22264@heron.pl> In-Reply-To: <20041007192337.GA12508@alex.lan> References: <20041007011740.M26670@heron.pl> <41658B5B.4010908@mac.com> <20041007192337.GA12508@alex.lan>
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > piotr.smyrak@heron.pl wrote: > > >Please enlighten me. What way I should follow? > > > > First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS. > > Next, check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there exists an > > option to allow you to choose LBA mode rather than C/H/S, use LBA mode. > > > > NeXT, try using MS-DOS fdisk to create a small DOS partition. The re-run > > the FreeBSD installation, which now ought to see the partition table as > > your system wants it. Don't try to re-enter the partition table info > > yourself unless you know exactly what you are doing. > > > > If this doesn't work, provide more details (which version of FreeBSD, what > > you computer hardware is, and what your partition table looks like). > > I have had the same problem with FreeBSD-5.2, WD 250G. > Windows would install fine, but FreeBSD gave problems with > fdisk. I finaly reached a solution afther trying lot of > things, but never knew what I did. > Here is what I did. I stopped trying with on-disk sysinstall, I put the installation cd into the drive, booted from it and used that one. I saw the same warning, <G> it and proceeded with immediate write. Now, I don't really know what is the difference between the installation cd sysinstal and the installed on disk, but it worked for me even though it was not the most elegant solution... -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl
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