From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 08:53:08 2004 Return-Path: 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 A887516A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from calis.blacksun.org (calis.blacksun.org [216.254.108.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81BCD43D2F for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:53:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6A2F817088; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:56:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D3117082; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:56:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:56:31 -0500 (EST) From: Don To: Jorn Argelo In-Reply-To: <200403311821.04516.jorn@wcborstel.nl> Message-ID: <20040331115525.H2900@calis.blacksun.org> References: <20040331160347.84505.qmail@web13809.mail.yahoo.com> <200403311821.04516.jorn@wcborstel.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:53:08 -0000 > > When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an > > error about my disk > > geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the > > geometry that FreeBSD > > wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I > > still get the error. > > Even when you use the exact values your BIOS thinks it is? I am pretty sure it was still happening even then. Unfortunately, I had several other minor problems and it was easy enough to hack sysinstall so I did not bother to really check. If I have some time I will go back and look into it again. -Don