From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 2 21:15:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arthur.intraceptives.com.au (arthur.intraceptives.com.au [203.22.72.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94CA137BF55 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:15:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wwlists@intraceptives.com.au) Received: (qmail 30320 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2000 05:15:35 -0000 Received: from wks-pc1.intraceptives.com.au (HELO waddy) (203.22.72.32) by arthur.intraceptives.com.au with SMTP; 3 Mar 2000 05:15:35 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.1.20000303161402.060f6260@arthur.intraceptives.com.au> X-Sender: wwlists@arthur.intraceptives.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.1 Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:15:34 +1100 To: Jason Seidel From: Warren Welch Subject: Re: fdisk / disklabel issues... Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.1.20000302103756.05601b50@arthur.intraceptives.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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