Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 02:34:53 +0100 From: stephan mantler <step@acm.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode Message-ID: <3DC1DA3D.4070308@acm.org>
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tonight i tried once again to install from 5.0-DP1 and the
2002-10-25 snapshot media. it has been interesting.
the disk i'm trying to install to is a seagate ST360021A
60G disk with a 30G windows partition already installed.
the BIOS accepts it either as a 28733/16/255 Cyl/Hd/Sec CHS,
1915/240/255 "Large", or 7297/255/63 LBA disk (yes, both
CHS and Large with 255 sectors).
I had the BIOS set to "auto" during the initial install, which
apparently defaulted to CHS mode. Windows is happy to work in
both CHS and Large modes, so i subsequently tried both
settings for the FreeBSD install.
However, sysinstall (neither from the 4.7-mini ISO nor the
5.0 snapshots i have) refuses to accept either and
insists on the LBA geometry. using <G> to manually set the
geometry doesn't help ("you have entered an invalid geometry,
a more likely blah blah"). Wizard Mode let me enter the BIOS
geometry but apparently refused to write anything back to disk.
My next try was to create the partitions (er, slices) in Windows
and try to go from there, but that didn't work out either. Disklabel
just wouldn't cooperate.
For the time being I'll wipe out another disk and install there,
but i sure wonder which detail i've missed.
regards,
-stephan
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