Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:48:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: stephan mantler <step@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode Message-ID: <XFMail.20021031204859.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3DC1DA3D.4070308@acm.org>
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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 <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.
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?
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