From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 31 17:49: 9 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 49A9B37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D17E443E4A for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:49:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 11530 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2002 01:49:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Nov 2002 01:49:17 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA11n0n5031030; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:49:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DC1DA3D.4070308@acm.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:48:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: stephan mantler Subject: RE: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 On 01-Nov-2002 stephan mantler wrote: > 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. Sectors more than 63 are not allowed for IDE drives at all. What happens when you use the LBA geometry? Does the drive not boot properly after being installed? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message