From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 16:35: 2 2002 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 A1EE837B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:35:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09B743E4A for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:35:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A09F26B10038; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:34:55 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:34:54 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: quick help-new install complains about the hard drive geometry Message-Id: <20021022163454.6c0522bf.chip@wiegand.org> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am setting up a brand new system, has a 40gig hard drive. FBSD4.7 complains about the geometry being incorrect, to use the G command to change it. I did that, set it to exactly what the BIOS shows for the drive, and it still claims the numbers are incorrect. What do I do now? -- Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message