From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 28 11:13:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129B416A4CE for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:13:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from forrie.com (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.62.205.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BABD543D1D for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from forrie.com (i-95.forrie.net. [192.168.1.95]) by forrie.com with ESMTP id i1SJDZXF070775 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:13:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Message-ID: <4040E85F.4050400@forrie.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:13:35 -0500 From: Forrest Aldrich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040226) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.3.0(snapshot 20010925) (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com) X-MailScanner-LocalNet: Found to be clean X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 05:37:51 -0800 Subject: Geometry Incorrect FreeBSD-5.2.1 installation problem(s).... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:13:44 -0000 I've a SOYO Dragon Platinum Edition motherboard, with SATA drives. According to FreeBSD's installation process, my geometry is incorrectly set. So, I did as it asked, rebooted into the BIOS and retrieved the figures: Cylinders: 38309 Head: 16 Pre: 0 LandZone: 38308 Sectors: 255 I selected the "G" command from sysinstall's menu to set the geometry manually: 38309/16/255 (cyl/hd/sector) and it still insists the figures are wrong. It's defaulting back to what it believes is correct: 9729 cylinders 255 heads 63 sectors These are 80gb SATA drives. The BIOS is set to run in IDE Enhanced mode (I believe). I did a test installation and it worked, except the dreaded GRUB loader (from a linux test install) keeps coming up (fdisk /mbr does NOT get rid of it)... I don't know if that's the cause of this problem (doubtful). Any clues as to what might be wrong? The BIOS is AMI/Phoenix, and is up-to-date. Thanks.