Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:50:45 -0600 From: "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> To: "'Paul Everlund'" <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: "'Stephen Hovey'" <shovey@buffnet.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size Message-ID: <003401c2b8f2$58ccfa20$0302a8c0@mike> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301091106140.11650-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se>
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=20 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:16 AM Paul Everlund = <mailto:tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: >=20 >> On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey >> <mailto:shovey@buffnet.net> wrote:=20 >>=20 >>>> I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt >>>> in fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. >>>=20 >>> usually a drive has em on the drive on something - a sticker/label >>> sorta thing with head, cyl, sect, etc >>=20 >> Ok I found out the proper numbers: >> 39704 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors. >>=20 >> I defined it that way in the BIOS. >>=20 >> When I get to the fdisk part of the install I did 'G'. I then set >> the geometry according to those numbers and told it to use the >> entire drive. When I go to define the slices, though, it still >> thinks the drive is only 2 gigs. What am I doing wrong? >>=20 >> Mike Loiterman >> PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E >> http://www.ascendency.net >=20 > Maybe this will work? Set it up in BIOS to be a 2 GB disk. Boot from > the floppy/CD, and in fdisk you should give the proper numbers. Create > two partitions. The first one to boot from, that should be less than 2 > GB, and the second should be the rest of the disk. Now create your > slices in the two partitions, and of course / should be on the first > one. Maybe this layout could be sufficient for you? > Partition 1 (2 GB): / 256 MB > (swap) 2*RAM > /var The rest of the available space... > Partition 2 (18 GB): /usr 18 GB >=20 > Also make sure the jumpers are correctly set on the drive. Sometimes > the jumpers can be set to fake the disk size reported to the BIOS. >=20 > Hope above information will make it work! >=20 > Best regards, > Paul I think trying to fool the BIOS into recognizing it is an exercise in = futility. I think my best bet would be to buy and ATA Card with on = board BIOS Would that work with BSD? - ------------------------------------------- Randomly Generated Quote: 'Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.' -- Douglas Adams Mike Loiterman PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E http://www.ascendency.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 Comment: This message has been digitally signed by Mike Loiterman iQA/AwUBPh9ANWjZbUnRudGOEQIF0gCfSN+pLIizx+smR6Gl74imgYC0pjgAoMZC aP0XOcahfNJ3n6F5OJvsnA3X =3DNmy7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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