From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 27 02:55:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44C216A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:55:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from charm.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD7743D45 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:55:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by charm.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F6817004 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:06:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41A7A8BA.5070309@locolomo.org> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:05:46 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <41A71EEB.4090301@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <41A71EEB.4090301@locolomo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Solved: Diskgeometry - sysinstall bug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:55:32 -0000 Erik Norgaard wrote: > if (d->bios_cyl > 65536 || d->bios_hd > 256 || d->bios_sect >= 64) { > Sanitize_Bios_Geom(d); > } It's a bug that sysinstall refuses to accept what you type. I have found that I could create working file system with both geometries editing the above code. The diskwrite error that I got when I tried to install seems to relate to cpio, ar, pax or some other program that installs onto the disks, and relates to these being built dynamically linked. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2