From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 3 16:57:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08079 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:57:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08065 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:57:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA06910; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 09:27:41 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980704092740.T358@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 09:27:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Offset to -63 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Beaudoin, Jean-Marc on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 09:49:28AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 3 July 1998 at 9:49:28 -0400, Beaudoin, Jean-Marc wrote: > 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? I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. What do you mean by "offset"? It's not a term used by fdisk. It would help to give an example of the output you get. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message