Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:24:25 +1000 From: Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Large disk laptop problems: Gateway Solo 9100 XL Message-ID: <4A25671D.00029860.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au>
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to ask for help partitioning the disk of my employers Laptop for MS-Windows 9x and FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE-PAO. The system is exhibiting all the symptoms of bad disk geometry (eg after pressing F2 to boot FreeBSD the booteasy prompt reappears). MS Windows occupies the first 3.5GB slice/MS DOS partition, the rest 4+GB is FreeBSD. The disk, an IBM-DYLA-28100 is reported by the BIOS as 15880 cyl/16 heads/ 63 sectors. My colleague used FIPS to partition the disk and we attempted to install FreeBSD - something we have many positive experiences doing - to no avail. I found that the geometry reported by FDISK (in the partition disk part of sysinstall) was not the same as the BIOS so I changed it but without helping. Does the root partition of the FreeBSD slice need to be in the first 1024 cylinders ? Thank you, Yours sincerely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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