Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:05:47 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Quigley <michael@cybernetics.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Large ATA Disk Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950302110224.7326A-100000@ws0.cybernetics.net>
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I know that this question is FAQ because I've read all the FAQs that I
could get my hands on. Yet, I am still having a problem.
The machine is a DEC P5-90 with a 1.2gig ATA/IDE hard drive. This system
has been running FreeBSD in the past, and was installed around 6 months
ago. Now I am having to reinstall it, and am running into a situation
where I simply cannot get it to boot off of the hard disk. I know its a
geometry mapping problem, but I cannot seem to correct it. I have the
'Large Disk Access Mode' option in the BIOS setup set to 'Other' (which
is says is for Unix/etc). When I run utilities like IDEINFO under DOS,
it reports different BIOS geometry than physical disk geometry.
I don't remember having this much trouble the first time I installed
FreeBSD, but I've been working on this for a while now with no success.
Any ideas or pointers would be GREATLY appreciated.
- Mike
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