Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:25:44 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <200101151925.OAA97689@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <80855.979537248@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <peter@FreeBSD.org> <200101150529.f0F5TrX86109@freefall.freebsd.org> <80855.979537248@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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<<On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:40:48 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> said: > I still have a test machine here, of comparatively modern design, > which won't install *without* DD mode and I've tried quite a number of > different geometries for it without success (it's all SCSI, not IDE) I have a bunch of machines which have this problem, but which we found an alternative work-around. It's one of these issues where the BIOS looks at the partition table to try to guess the ``geometry''; but when there is no partition table, it makes a guess (that sysinstall heeds) which is it unable to make use of in practice. These machines are all due to be retired next FY so I don't much care about getting this fixed. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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