From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 01:44:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E58116A401 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:44:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sub02@freeode.co.uk) Received: from mail.freeode.co.uk (freeode.co.uk [213.162.123.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B8943D45 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:44:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sub02@freeode.co.uk) Received: from lexx.freeode.co.uk (lexx.freeode.co.uk [10.10.10.2]) by mail.freeode.co.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2F1iNqe008213 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:44:24 GMT (envelope-from sub02@freeode.co.uk) From: John Murphy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:44:23 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200603140049.k2E0nQES021139@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200603140049.k2E0nQES021139@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sub02@freeode.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:44:27 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: >Nowdays, the geometry on the drives seems to be 'virtual' and so >you should just let the installer/fdisk do what it wants and leave >it that way. If it doesn't work the way the installer wants to >then there may be a problem. But if it works, just ignore the warnings. Thanks Jerry. I'm so paranoid about messing up the other OS on the HD though. The installer's fdisk suggests an entirely different layout to everything else I've seen: Geometry 9729/255/63 = 156296385 sectors (76316 MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 5981220 5981282 ad0s1 7 fat 11 5981283 13971447 19952729 ad0s2 8 freebsd 165 19952730 5670 19958399 - 12 unused 0 19958400 136337040 156295439 ad0s3 4 extended DOS, LBA 15 156295440 6048 156301487 - 12 unused 0 If I just immediately 'Q'uit the darned thing will it not make any changes to global drive geometry? It would probably take me several days to get my win2k installation back to how it is now, if I lost it. All I really want is for the installer to use the freebsd slice as is. I'm tempted to just try UPGRADING but mergemaster always confuses me. -- John.