From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 21:20:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE5A37BB7A for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 21:20:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ziggy@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (panix.com [166.84.0.226]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF3315675; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:20:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from ziggy@localhost) by panix.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/PanixN2.0) id AAA24881; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:20:25 -0500 (EST) From: Message-Id: <200003280520.AAA24881@panix.com> Subject: Problem installing 3.4-RELEASE: IDE Disk Geometry To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:20:25 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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