From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 4:10:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [194.228.200.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7236337B400 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 04:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2RCAa817849; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:10:36 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.9a) with ESMTP id 2002032713102176:6470 ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:10:21 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2RCOun22297; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:24:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:24:56 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Bill Olson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Message-ID: <20020327122456.GX389@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Olson , questions@freebsd.org References: <001f01c1d508$bc1daa80$1201010a@suscom66> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <001f01c1d508$bc1daa80$1201010a@suscom66> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 03/27/2002 01:10:21 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 03/27/2002 01:10:28 PM, Serialize complete at 03/27/2002 01:10:28 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > From: "Bill Olson" > To: > Subject: Help > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:56:43 -0500 > > Hi, > > I have an 80GIG Samsung Hard Drive and to use the drive in my Compaq, > I have to use overlay software to recognize the 80 gig in there. > Without the overlay software, It only recognizes 32GIG. > > I am trying to install Freebsd (Latest downloadable off your web site) > and am running into an error when running the FDISK command. What I do > is Turn the PC on, it loads the Overlay software, and then it asks for > the disk and I put it in. When getting to the FDISK commands, thats > when I get the following error: > > chunk 'ad2s1' [-63..156360644] does not start on a track boundary I've seen this with an old mobo and a 40GB disk. Try using the "Dangerously dedicated" mode. I don't remember the keyboard shortcut, but it's documented in the help for the fdisk screen in /stand/sysinstall (the installer). I hadn't found a real solution back then (the DD option occured to me later), but got it to work in the 32GB space. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 1:20PM up 2 days, 21:05, 14 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.04, 0.01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message