Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:14:12 +0100 From: stephan mantler <step@acm.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode Message-ID: <3DC28C34.1020309@acm.org> References: <XFMail.20021031204859.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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