Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl Subject: Re: disk geometry confussion Message-ID: <20041007192337.GA12508@alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <41658B5B.4010908@mac.com> References: <20041007011740.M26670@heron.pl> <41658B5B.4010908@mac.com>
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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > piotr.smyrak@heron.pl wrote: > >Please enlighten me. What way I should follow? > > First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS. > Next, check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there exists an > option to allow you to choose LBA mode rather than C/H/S, use LBA mode. > > NeXT, try using MS-DOS fdisk to create a small DOS partition. The re-run > the FreeBSD installation, which now ought to see the partition table as > your system wants it. Don't try to re-enter the partition table info > yourself unless you know exactly what you are doing. > > If this doesn't work, provide more details (which version of FreeBSD, what > you computer hardware is, and what your partition table looks like). I have had the same problem with FreeBSD-5.2, WD 250G. Windows would install fine, but FreeBSD gave problems with fdisk. I finaly reached a solution afther trying lot of things, but never knew what I did. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/
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