From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 5:35:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F0837B405 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 05:35:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.FernUni-Hagen.de (oak.fernuni-hagen.de [132.176.114.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19FF43F93 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 05:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfh@es-i2.FernUni-Hagen.de) Received: from amavis by oak.FernUni-Hagen.de with scanned-ok (Exim 4.04) id 18ix2w-0000On-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:35:30 +0100 Received: from es-i2.fernuni-hagen.de ([132.176.7.81]) by oak.FernUni-Hagen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id 18ix2j-0000NE-00; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:35:17 +0100 Received: from fernuni-hagen.de (es-dhcp-95.fernuni-hagen.de [132.176.7.95]) by es-i2.fernuni-hagen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C5952D0; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:35:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E4A4DA7.2050903@fernuni-hagen.de> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:35:35 +0100 From: Fritz Heinrichmeyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall on current broken with larger drives Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this is the same problem as googled here: http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=b2760f23e09bd704&seekm=b21hoi%24b75%241%40ncc1701.cistron.net#link1 sysinstall does not like the partition table. It does not like the geometry 119150/16/63 found by kernel. My bios says 1024/255/63 (wrong, only 8 GByte). Sysinstall suggests 7476/255/63 (better, 60 GByte). The partition table was created with diskpart from windows xp, btw. Any ideas? -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message