Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:20:25 -0500 (EST) From: <ziggy@panix.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Problem installing 3.4-RELEASE: IDE Disk Geometry Message-ID: <200003280520.AAA24881@panix.com>
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Hi, Apologies if this question has been asked before; I couldn't seem to find any answers in the bug database. I've got a new BP6 dual Celeron configuration with a 20GB IBM HD. The BIOS reports the geometry as follows: 2495 cylinders 255 heads 63 sectors ---- 400082175 total blocks For some reason, fdisk cannot determine that during the install, and it finds a bogus geometry, sometimes adding up to 2GB, other times adding up to 4GB. Once I fire up the emergency shell and try to configure the geometry by hand on tty4, this is the only geometry that comes up: 65536 cylinders 1 head 63 sectors ----- 4128768 blocks When I reset the disk geometry in the graphical fdisk from sysinstall, the geometry appears to be reset, but the number of blocks available to allocate is unchanged (4M blocks). When I reset the geometry on tty4 using the CLI fdisk, the geometry reverts to 64K/1/63. Any way to work around this and allocate the full 20GB to freebsd? Thanks, -- Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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