From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 15 11:43:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08335 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.rmci.net (mail.rmci.net [205.162.184.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA08324 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:43:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from srock@lcpid.com) Received: (qmail 18380 invoked from network); 15 Oct 1998 12:43:25 -0600 Received: from usr-if-40.rmci.net (HELO lcpid.com) (208.14.172.40) by mail.rmci.net with SMTP; 15 Oct 1998 12:43:25 -0600 Message-ID: <3626427C.C7A5125C@lcpid.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:44:12 -0600 From: Stan Rock X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (Win98; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Geometry Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have fought this problem for quite a while. When FreeBSD boots to install (disk, or cd) it finds most large hard drives with a really high number of cylinders, 15 or 16 heads, 63 sectors. Most hard drives don't use this anymore. If they are autodetected like the ones I use its something like 1244 cylinders, 255 heads, and 63 sectors. If one wants to boot Win 98 / Linux / and FreeBSD this presents a problem. I realize you can change the geometry within the installation process and the installation will go smoothly BUT the problem is that is still won't boot unless you change your geometry. With the 1024 cylinder boundry this also creates a huge problem. I would suggest a better work around for this problem. I think that no matter how the hard drive is found at first it should result back to the changed geometry as default. Please let me know if you have any questions. Stan Rock stanrock@if.rmci.net Lucero Computer Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message