From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 1 6:10:24 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 36C2837B401; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 06:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from step.cg.tuwien.ac.at (step.cg.tuwien.ac.at [128.131.166.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF5743E77; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 06:10:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from step@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (imagination.at [194.152.184.202]) by step.cg.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16664; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:10:14 +0100 Message-ID: <3DC28C34.1020309@acm.org> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:14:12 +0100 From: stephan mantler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode References: 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 John Baldwin wrote: > 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? Well, I did try LBA as well, but couldn't boot at all. boot2 did let me look at the root directory, but any further investigation (like trying 0:da(0,a)/boot/? ) produced junk and/or killed boot2. The Windows partition also didn't boot. Btw. according to http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/modesECHS-c.html the CHS parameters *are* within limits of the IDE/ATA standard; the "Large" mode is off limits since it can't get the Cylinder cound below 1024 without exceeding the max Heads. *sigh* what a mess :-) /step -- stephan mantler reality is in fact virtual. step@acm.org http://step.schmelzweb.at/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message