From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 31 17:31:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C6637B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mantler.dyndns.org (N387P025.adsl.highway.telekom.at [213.33.48.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEAE43E75 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from step@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (step-desk.home.lan [192.168.1.20]) by mantler.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA11VQdr006777 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 01:31:27 GMT (envelope-from step@acm.org) Message-ID: <3DC1DA3D.4070308@acm.org> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 02:34:53 +0100 From: stephan mantler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message