Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:53:03 +0200 From: Marcello Maggioni <marcello.maggioni@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Doubt when installing bootsector Message-ID: <7ad9702505082506536a49b39@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, I have a doubt. I've installed FreeBSD 5.4 and now I need to reinstall my bootsector in the MBR . I've partitioned the disk initially with sysinstall that on my first disk complained about wrong geometry settings. From what I understood by reading the source code ,sysinstall complains about every geometry setting that gets over 65535 as number of cylinders and FreeBSD initially at boot time found this geometry for my 60GiB disk : 116336/16/63. Then sysinstall changed it to 7299/255/63. Now that I have to reinstall the boot sector I'd like to do that with the FDISK utility , but the FDISK utility sees the first CHS geometry , the one that FreeBSD sees at boot time (116336/16/63) , from the moment that I have partitioned all the system with sysinstall is safe to install the boot sector from fdisk that sees a different BIOS geometry than sysinstall? (and why sysinstall and FreeBSD see 2 different geometries?) Thanks for the answer Bye Marcello
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