Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 17:02:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman <chris@crow.ctc.edu> To: Mr_X <jbbrazel@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-heads on Western IDE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950822165915.4616A-100000@crow.ctc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508222352.JAA09873@brian.teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au>
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I think part of you problem can be fixed in the bios settings, there is a translation setting that allows dos to read larger than 500meg drives this has to be set so that it doesn;t translate so that unix can read it right. Which might mean that dos might have a fit later. i cant say. Hope this helps :-> Chris Coleman Chris@crow.ctc.edu Computer Support Intern, Big Bend Community College http://134.39.180.3/hypertxt/yafda.htm Lost in CyberSpace and Loving it. On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Mr_X wrote: > Last nite, I decided the time had come to finally get freebsd on my PC. > Sunted dos all over the place, repartitioned/reformatted etc etc etc, > and then booted off a floppy to be installing. > > My basic setup is a Western IDE 1.2Gig HDD running on a brand X (I forget which) > IDE controller (note, there is only the one drive hooked up to the controller). > The CMOS defaults are set to: > 621 cyl, 64 heads, 63 sectors > (BIOS is auto-sensing the drive) > which basically leaves me with a 1.22 Gig HDD for use. > > When I rebooted, FreeBSD began spewing about 64 heads being > incompatible with the 'partition table', and that the 'controller default > of 16' (heads) was being restored. > From then on, lots of wonderful problems ensued. > Install had trouble creating the rd0g disk partition (timing out), but after > a bit of screwing around, (setting the CMOS settings to 2484c,16h,63s - > these were the settings that install seemed to want - it kept writing them > to the screen) rd0g formatted correctly (this occurred around 3am in the morning). > But then DOS had it's little spew (didn't like the new MBR, did it? > And yup, unfortunately, I need to keep DOS for work) So I reset > the CMOS, rebooted teh install disk, rewrote the MBR etc etc, > and install decided it would play ball until I had to reboot FreeBSD from > the harddisk (just before I used cpio.flp, I guess). > It rebooted fine until it got to forking init, couldn't find it, paniced, > died :P > > So: > > - Why is 64 heads such a bad number (just _what_ partition table is > the install disk referring to when it barfs)? > > - Is this the reason for FreeBSD's stubborn refusal to install smoothly? > > - Does anyone have any suggestions? > > cheers, > John Brazel > +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ > jbbrazel@cs.adelaide.edu.au "Yea, though I walk alone through > eris@student.adelaide.edu.au the valley of darkness, I fear no > I.R.L: John Brazel evil, for I am the evilest son of > Adelaide University, Aus. a bitch this valley has ever seen" > HTTP://smug.student.adelaide.edu.au/~eris > +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ >
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