From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 8:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0200214A10 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:35:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA09256; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:39:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3823072D.1FDEE8FE@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:34:53 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fritz Heinrichmeyer Cc: Alejandro Ramirez , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: disk cylinder count wrong References: <382054E6.67A72B4D@nisser.com> <034901bf2620$68d59520$bdc3fea9@megared.net.mx> <3821AFAF.E1B6A92D@nisser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: > > i recently struggled at home with a 15 GB HD and realized to late that > all is answered in the FAQ!! > > file:/usr/share/doc/FAQ/FAQ39.html#39: > > there is written: > > ... the simplest way around this is usually to create a small DOS > partition on the disk. The correct geometry should then be detected .... Thanks! I'm looking at the http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html FAQ again, but that lacks at least a likely subject. Fine. Of course, I gave it the whole disk. Ah well. Roelof PS Didn't know FreeBSD needed DOS to run ;) -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message