From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 17:17:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from c002.snv.cp.net (c002-h007.c002.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB7F437B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:17:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 29513 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2000 15:34:30 -0800 Received: from 1Cust251.tnt1.fort-wayne.in.da.uu.net (HELO canada.com) (63.23.159.251) by smtp.peoplepc.com (209.228.32.171) with SMTP; 29 Nov 2000 15:34:30 -0800 X-Sent: 29 Nov 2000 23:34:30 GMT Message-ID: <3A259428.6DD3897C@canada.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:41:28 -0500 From: mh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Administrator Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LBA and loader -> problem References: <41A4E43D1765D3118C41000001013BDD044DFF@SERVER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org dude, Rick is going to be pissed about this question! Better ask it on freebsd-questions! mike Administrator wrote: > Hi! > I have faced following problem: > I've installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 on WD drive with LBA mode on. > Everything works fine, except that on the very first boot stage (BMX > loader) > the system works VERY SLOW (it takes about several minutes to get to the > kernel > loading stage), and the drive makes some snaping sounds like if the drive > head > hits somethig. But after the kernel starts loading - everythig works > fine. > After trying different choises of disk geometry in BIOS setup > (actually 3 - LBA, NORMAL and LARGE) I found out that the problem vanishes > when setting LARGE mode. > I can't use this mode permanently , cause I have several more OSes on this > drive and they won't boot > in any mode except LBA. > In the logs I see that the FreeBSD system thinks that the drive C/H/S > "signature" is NORMAL, no matter what i set up in BIOS. > > Can anyone give me some direction to work in? > Thanx in advance > > PS: sorry for my bad english. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message