Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:19:27 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: lorin.lund@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hidden disk geometry on Compaq Presario V2000 Message-ID: <4720437f.0iZxRIZnBMGw%2B%2Byt%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <472023D4.9010404@infowest.com> References: <20071024124508.GA17482@ozzmosis.com> <20071024160437.GF88476@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <472023D4.9010404@infowest.com>
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Lorin Lund <gmail.com!lorin.lund@agora.rdrop.com> wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario Notebook in the V2000 series. > I just replaced the hard drive because the original was getting > disk errors. > > I have a WD Scorpio 120 GB. When I try to load FreeBSD I get an > error message when I get to the partition the disk stage. It > says my disk geometry is wrong. It says I need to use whatever > numbers my BIOS uses. But my BIOS doesn't show the disk geometry > numbers anywhere I can see. How can I proceed? How can I find > out what disk geometry to use? One method, which I think may be mentioned in the Handbook, is to boot the Windows install CD (that presumably came with the Presario) and use its fdisk to create a small partition. You don't need to actually install Windows, just create a partition as if you were going to install it. Then boot the FreeBSD CD and sysinstall will figure out the geometry from the Windows master boot record.
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