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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:06:02 +0100 (BST)
From:      jason+freebsd@kanda.com
To:        RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: failure to boot from SCSI disk
Message-ID:  <20020403150043.U82078-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204030224500.25150-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com>

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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, RJ45 wrote:

> Hi!
> I tryed to install FreeBSD on a IBM SCSI DDYS-T36950N SCSI U160 disk.
<SNIP>
> The disk gemoetry is 35003cyl/64 heads/32 sectors, and always the first

I had similar problems.  Where is this geometry reported?  fdisk in
installer or during boot/dmesg?

I found that fdisk was defaulting to different values than in dmesg.
When I manually set them in fdisk to what was presented in dmesg it worked
fine.

Jason.



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