From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 1 7:30:11 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 B1E2537B4D1 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC05743E42 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 17546 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2002 15:30:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Nov 2002 15:30:08 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA1FU5n5032843; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:30:05 -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: <3DC28C34.1020309@acm.org> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:29:43 -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: > 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 :-) The problem is that the _BIOS_ restricts to 63 sectors per head. :) Not ATA. If windows is the first slice on the disk then it might seem to work ok by accident. -- 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