From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 16:33:39 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 1288337B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:33:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343F643ED1 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA28817; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:33:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:33:43 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: Mike Loiterman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size In-Reply-To: <001001c2b774$a0136470$0302a8c0@mike> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 got me hangin unless fbsd does use bios for ide On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey wrote: > > >> I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt in > >> fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. > > > > > > usually a drive has em on the drive on something - a sticker/label > > sorta thing with head, cyl, sect, etc > > Ok I found out the proper numbers: > 39704 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors. > > I defined it that way in the BIOS. > > When I get to the fdisk part of the install I did 'G'. I then set the geometry according to those numbers and told it to use the entire drive. When I go to define the slices, though, it still thinks the drive is only 2 gigs. What am I doing wrong? > > - ------------------------------------------- > Randomly Generated Quote: > Time is nature's way of making sure > that everything doesn't happen at once. > > Mike Loiterman > PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E > http://www.ascendency.net > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 8.0 > Comment: This message has been digitally signed by Mike Loiterman > > iQA/AwUBPhy/yWjZbUnRudGOEQJuMQCfdGPiziwQl63XRoKBezC+Qgc//SUAoNk6 > BQUYb3spQEflY3x6i4a2A71G > =AUgk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message