From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 3 06:57:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA02168 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 06:57:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aragorn.hydro.qc.ca (aragorn.hydro.qc.ca [199.22.23.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA02163 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 06:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca) Received: id JAA12473; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:41:03 -0400 Received: by gateway id <3FV2988F>; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:49:31 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disk Offset to -63 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:49:28 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good day, I am trying to run the fdisk utility to install FreeBSD 2.2.6. It gives me an Offset value of -63 on the disk. The disk is was a Fujitsu IDE 1,08 Gb. Of course with the Offset at -63 FreeBSD will not install. Yester I bought a new one (Quantum BigFoot 2.5Gb), modify the master disk entry in the BIOS, ran the Disk Manager utility that came with the disk. I still get an offset of -63. My guess at this point is that the problem is not with the IDE drive but mostly with the BIOS. The PC (a test PC) is a 486 dx4/100 with 64 Mb or RAM. Anyone had to deal with this? How can I bypass this Offset of -63? Or is there something I should know about FreeBSD partitionning? Regards, ____________________ Jean-Marc Beaudoin, consultant Projet AN 2000 (VAX/OpenVMS) Tél.: 289-2211 (6405) Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca _________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message