Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 20:06:10 -0300 (EST) From: Paje da Oca <root@maloca.oca.org.br> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: sos@freebsd.dk Subject: RE: wrong disk geometry reported Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005261947000.24963-100000@maloca.oca.org.br> In-Reply-To: <200005262024.NAA00882@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 26 May 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
> I'm running 4.0-RELEASE and have tried BIOS set up as auto-detect, large,
> normal, and LBA. None of them work. I've been using FreeBSD for almost 5
> years on almost a hundred different servers and have never had anything like
> this. I'm using the /dev/ad1, /dev/rad1 devices. I have used both the
> command line fdisk, fdisk -i, and sysinstall. I have tried it at initial
> installation. I tried installing without configuring that drive so I could
> do it manually and no such luck. In my experience with FreeBSD it doesn't
> matter what BIOS thinks. The kernel manages to pull the correct info from
> the disk at boot. Here at freerealtime.com, our developers do most of their
> work on Linux (ack!). I haven't allowed one Linux machine into our
> production systems and I'm trying to move our developers onto FreeBSD. So
> far so good. With this one system I can boot the Linux kernel and Linux
> will see the drive perfectly. It makes me feel stupid when I just got done
> explaining how much better FreeBSD is and how I've never had a problem with
> compatability or reliability. I'm sure that if I purchased the hardware, it
> would work. But an IDE disk is an IDE disk.
Although I havent installed that many machines, I like FreeBSD,
and many of our servers run it.
Trying to install 4.0-RELEASE I had similar problems to the one
reported here.
The installation floppies were not able to label the disk, and
even while I partitioned it with the 3.4 floppies and went back
to 4.0 installation, the disk was not accessible.
The problem seems to be with the driver, ad. I would like to
know how to make new installation floppies for 4.0, substitu-
ting the old drive, wd, by this one (the solution needs to be
implemented without resorce to 4.0).
ANY HELP?
The messages I can read on the message console (SHIFT+ALT+F2),
are:
ad0: cannot find label (no disk label)
ad0s1: cannot find label (no disk label)
ad0s2: slice extends beyond end of disk: truncating from
16711680 to 25011856
My BIOS is: Award Modular Bios V4.50PG, 4.076804, 2A5L9F09
I have just an IDE disk, on a Pentium-S 75MHz with 32M and
an Atapi CD-ROM
Thanks in advance for any help,
Leonardo
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