From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 14:26: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACFB37B416 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.247.143.121.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.143.121] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 165DuX-0000Xx-00; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:26:05 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAHMPbh66727; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:25:37 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Jeff Sapp Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large ide drive Message-ID: <20011117142537.F63067@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011117171837.10A6037B418@hub.freebsd.org> <20011117111959.B14357@pelennor.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011117111959.B14357@pelennor.net>; from jasapp@pelennor.net on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:19:59AM -0600 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:19:59AM -0600, Jeff Sapp wrote: > Hello, I've run into some trouble getting FreeBSD installed on > my Maxtor 30 gigabyte drive. Previously, I had installed FreeBSD 4.3 on > a Maxtor 20 gig drive without doing anything special (at least to my knowledge). > This install if off a freshly burned copy of 4.4 > > I've read all the documentation I can find on this topic, but if I've > overlooked something, please feel free to point me in the right direction. > > The harddrive in my bios, under LBA, shows up as 3736/255/63. > I do understand that the boot slice cannot be larger than 1024 > Cylinders. Sure it can. The boot slice cannot _start_ beyond 1024 cylinders. > When fdisk runs during the FreeBSD install, I choose NOT to dangerously > dedicated the entire drive to FreeBSD, and I am given the chance to edit > the drive geometry. After changing the drive to 3736/255/63, at the top, > it says the drive is 29000 something megabytes. I can create a 2 gigabyte > slice, but I am not able to create a second slice to use the rest of the > drive. Why not? What error are you getting? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message