Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:14:48 +0200 (CEST) From: "Jesus A. Mora" <jmora@hvm.sas.cica.es> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with my hard disk geometry? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10106151013150.2323-100000@groucho.hvm.sas.cica.es>
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Hi! Some days ago, I got my new PC. First, I setup Win98se and then FreeBSD 4.2 on the second slice. Shortly after, Windows began to strange things and it even crashed just on booting. I got fed up and decided to reinstall Win98 (original version, this time). Of course, it zapped the BootManager, so I ran BOOTINST, but FreeBSD proved to be unable to boot. I read anywhere that this could be because of some problem related with the HD geometry and the solution was to reinstall FreeBSD I have a question: those crashes of Win98 could be caused for some strange incompatibilities or corruption in the info on the Partition Table derived from the installation of FreeBSD? It's not a joke: I need BOTH systems on my PC. I know that Windows is not a model of stability and reliability, but I would like to be sure that a new installation of FreeBSD won't cripple Windows, behaving "a la Microsoft". These are the data: >> Hard Disk: Seagate ST-320413A Size: 20021MB Cyl: 38792 Hd: 16 Sectors: 63 >> Fdisk MS-DOS: (very terse, of course) Total Space: 19093MB Part.: DOS: 13978 MB Non-DOS: 5114 MB >> Win98 sees a HD geometry of 2434 cyl, 255 heads and 63 sectors (LBA mode). >> MBR-Partition Table: (after reinstalling Win98) Part.# 1 2 Active 80 00 Start: H 1 255 S 1 11111111 C 0 11111111 Op.Sys 0c (FAT) a5 (FreeBSD) End: H 254 254 S 11111111 11111111 C 11111111 11111111 Sectors Preceding: 63 28627830 Length: 28627767 10474380 >> FreeBSD's FDISK: (after reinstalling Win98, and FreeBSD unable to boot) Disk name: ad0 Geometry: Cyl: 2434 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 --> 39102210 sectors (19092MB) Offset Size (ST) End 0 63 62 - (unused) 63 28627767 28627829 ad0s1 FAT = 28627830 10474380 39102209 ad0s2 FreeBSD C= 39102210 126 39102335 - (unused) Well, I hope some kind fellow will enlighten my mind. TIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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