Date: Wed, 4 Jan 95 10:23:43 +0100 From: rsilfhou@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Ruud van Silfhout) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Failed installation on big IDE-drive Message-ID: <9501040923.AA09751@mmra1.ms.philips.nl>
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Hi, I am having problems installing 2.0R on a fixed IDE disk. Here's what happens: The CMOS can be set to autodetect the hard disk. It then reports 1048 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors/track. (When I use the FreeBSD boot floppies at this stage, they report the disk to have the same geometry during the boot proces.) So far so good. Then I 'sliced' the disk using MSDOS-FDISK.EXE. After that, FreeBSD seems to think (not during boot, then the geometry is still 1048C/16H/63S) when in the Fdisk section of the install that the geometry is 524C/32H/63S. So clearly the DOS FDISK.EXE has done something strange. I then changed this geometry info back to 1048C/16H and then the installation fails after the reboot with "No Operating Syetem Found". I also tried to put 524/32 in the CMOS and use these values instead but then the FreeBSD instalation process tells me that 32 Heads are not allowed. My conclusion: I should be using the 1048C/16H setup because FreeBSD won't eat the 32Heads solution, but because of the DOS Fdisk I should be using the 524/32 solution. Clearly this bites :-( I read the TROUBLESHOOTING document but as far as I know I did everything mentioned inside. I have one question though: it tells to keep the root partition below cylinder 1024. If this is indeed the root partition in the FreeBSD slice, then I did this. But if the complete FreeBSD slice should fit below the 1024th cylinder, then that might be the problem. Can someone please tell me which values I have to use where??? (Btw: this was the MSDOS 5.0 FDISK) Thanks in advance, Ruud van Silfhout (rsilfhou@mmra1.ms.philips.nl)
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