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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE HD > 1Gb
To: markem@primenet.com (Mark Monninger)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 17:53:09 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199511090142.SAA03932@usr5.primenet.com> from "Mark Monninger" at Nov 8, 95 06:42:10 pm
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> 2448 cyl and 16 heads, it is remapped to appear to have 612 cyl and 64
> heads.
> Since FreeBSD uses the geometry from the disk (2448x16x63) instead of
> from the BIOS table (612x64x63), it gets confused.
NONONONO..
you need to tell freebsd when installing or running fdisk
to use the BIOS geometry..!
you're assuming we managed to undo all the BIOS brain dammage, but we couldn't
do that and still boot, so we use the BIOS figures..

especially for the boot sectors!
you seem to have used the real geometry, but unfortunatly,
you need the BIOS geometry for the (BIOS BASED) bootblocks to be able to run.


> Mark
> 
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