Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:07:09 -0600 From: Adam Fabian <afabian@austin.rr.com> To: Jef Dodson <jefdodson@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive geometry error Message-ID: <20041128170709.GA71942@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> In-Reply-To: <20041128104257.50440.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> References: <41A9A161.1040002@nbritton.org> <20041128104257.50440.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:42:57AM -0800, Jef Dodson wrote: > I first tried leaving the values alone and it produced the > error. I then tried changing the values to the values that > my BIOS reported but that gave the same error. Incidentally, > the values that the installer is setting are the same values > that I see if I run fdisk and print the partition table for and > identical (but different) drive that has a Linux installation. I'm still hazy on this. On the attempt where FreeBSD said that the reported geometry was unlikely, and it was using a more likely geometry, and you accepted FreeBSD's more likely geometry (if, in fact, you made such an attempt; this is where I'm hazy), when you tried to commit to the install, what error message did you get? -- Adam Fabian (afabian@austin.rr.com)
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