Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:02:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jef Dodson <jefdodson@yahoo.com> To: Adam Fabian <afabian@austin.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive geometry error Message-ID: <20041130230238.83162.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041128170709.GA71942@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net>
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So, I swapped out the WD 250 GB drive for a Maxtor 10GB drive from an old iMac and the installation worked. So, the problem I was having was definitely related to the hard drive, but I don't know exactly what the problem was. Is there a general problem with using large drives with BSD? Is there something special that I need to do in order to use a 250GB drive? Like I said before, the drive works fine under Debian so I know the drive itself is OK. Thanks. Jef --- Adam Fabian <afabian@austin.rr.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:42:57AM -0800, Jef Dodson wrote: > > I first tried leaving the values alone and it produced the > > error. I then tried changing the values to the values that > > my BIOS reported but that gave the same error. Incidentally, > > the values that the installer is setting are the same values > > that I see if I run fdisk and print the partition table for and > > identical (but different) drive that has a Linux installation. > > I'm still hazy on this. On the attempt where FreeBSD said that the > reported geometry was unlikely, and it was using a more likely > geometry, and you accepted FreeBSD's more likely geometry (if, in > fact, you made such an attempt; this is where I'm hazy), when you > tried to commit to the install, what error message did you get? > > -- > Adam Fabian (afabian@austin.rr.com) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
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