Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:00:03 -0800 From: Gabriel Levy <gabelevy@fiber.com> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD won't boot after install (Possible Disk Geometry problem?) Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20050322093757.02d042c8@mail.fiber.com>
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Hello, I've loved FreeBSD since I torture-tested it as a web server several years ago and found it could easily handle about 10 times the number of concurrent connections as red hat with perfect stability and incredibly frugal memory usage. I desperately want to use it for our new web/database server but I am at the end of my installation rope here, so any help would be much appreciated. Attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3-Release on (all brand new): P4 3.2Ghz Hyperthreaded ECS 848P-A motherboard Phoenix AwardBIOS v6.00 1 Gig DDR RAM WD800JB Western Digital 80GB HDD D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet card My BIOS reports the disk geometry as 38309/16/255 in setup with access mode set to "Auto." I make one slice, using the whole disk, and use the automatic label/partitions. Fdisk complains that the disk geometry of 155061/16/63 is incorrect and chooses 9729/255/63. I set the partition as active and choose to use an MBR.The FTP install goes by without a hitch and upon reboot I get "Non-system disk or disk error" and the system will not boot. Changing the disk access mode in the BIOS to "LBA" causes my BIOS to detect the geometry as 9729/255/63 which I was sure would solve my problems. FDISK still complains that 155061/16/63 is incorrect and chooses 9729/255/63. Install continues just as before and I get the same problem on reboot. Any ideas? After wasting a whole day on this yesterday, I figured maybe somebody here can help. Thanks, Gabe Levy
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