From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Apr 27 5: 7:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cagelink.com (dsl94213.dyndsl.nettally.com [199.44.94.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3700B37B400 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by cagelink.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C4F8171; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 08:13:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cagelink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BB5CD; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 08:13:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 08:13:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tyler To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: Subject: Re: Problem with large hard drive In-Reply-To: <20020426222842.K16057-100000@workhorse.imach.com> Message-ID: <20020427081020.Q8700-100000@cagelink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 1) I've matched all my geometry settings in installation with the BIOS but it dosen't seem to make a difference. 2) Where do I set this in the install? 3) Where it should go into the "Booting Kernel in..." I get a blinking underscore and about after 5 minutes of the HDD running it just says DISK FAILURE, ENTER A DISK or something along those lines, as if there was a bad boot disk in the floppy drive. 4) No, haven't tryed that. I'll try now. On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Tyler wrote: > > > Im installing FreeBSD on a server going into an ISP but im running into > > problems with drive geometry. The first time I tryed it said it was > > incorrect, set it to 9732/255/63 and installed. Didn't work. Then I > > tryed 16383/16/63, thats what Maxtor's Documents said. Didn't work. Then > > I went into the BIOS and set the HDD to manual and played around with the > > C/H/S and matching those with how I installed FreeBSD. Didn't work. I > > need to get this server up ASAP but im running into these problems. Any > > help will be greatly appreciated. > > There are any one of hundreds of things which could cause this. > > The bottom line is that: > > 1) CHS settings in bios must match freebsd settings. I'd autodetect the > drive with bios, and then when I install in freebsd make sure that you > enter the bios settings into the partitioner so it knows what the bios > thinks. > > 2) LBA/non-lba matters. > > 3) You didn't tell us where the boot fails (I'm assuming it's a boot > problem). > > 4) Does it work if you boot the kernel off a floppy, with root set to the > hard drive. (details on how to do this left as exercise to reader) > > 5) Some bioses won't boot the kernel off of anything beyond cyl 1024. > > And so on. > > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 > http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 > Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message