Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:15:34 +1100 From: Warren Welch <wwlists@intraceptives.com.au> To: Jason Seidel <jseidel@rapidnet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk / disklabel issues... Message-ID: <4.2.1.20000303161402.060f6260@arthur.intraceptives.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003012129080.70202-100000@rapidnet.com> References: <4.2.1.20000302103756.05601b50@arthur.intraceptives.com.au>
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At 09:34 PM 3/1/00 -0700, Jason Seidel wrote: >I have had a machine that the bios picks up the drive as one thing, the >BSD probe picks it up as another, the sysinstall picks that as another. >But the one thing that was weird was that the geometry on the drive said >another size yet. MMmmm... Yes, I've see this too! >What you want to do in the sysinstall is pick "A" like you did and choose >to use the entire disk like before. Then after that, you want to set the >geometry according to what it says on the hard drive. If you don't have >that, look it up on the web. This will keep your partition and the new >drive geometry. Yeah... Is there a way to do this from the command line??? >Remember, FreeBSD doesn't care what the bios says Yep... Even so, one would expect that they detect it the same way! W. wwelch@intraceptives.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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