Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:54:56 +0800 From: "Joubert Uriarte" <xichrome@pacific.net.ph> To: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Martin Machacek" <mm@i.cz>, "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com>, "Alexander Kirpa" <ank@parex.lv> Subject: Re: Booting Problems Message-ID: <002d01be02d6$bf762340$c908a8c0@xichrome.asiansources.com>
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Dear All, Thank you very much for helping me out on my Booting Problem with FreeBSD v.2.2.6 on an HP Vectra machine. You were all very helpful. My FreeBSD is booting up properly now. The problem was with the geometry of the hard disk. With a Seagate ST31200N, the standard geometry is 2727 cylinders * 9 heads * 84 sectors, however, this is not accepted by FreeBSD. FreeBSD always suggests to use the geometry 128 cylinders * 255 heads * 63 sectors which the HP Vectra machine fails to recognize. After studying all your suggestions, I checked for another alternative geometry which both FAT and FreeBSD will accept. I figured, if FAT accepts such a geometry which FreeBSD also accepts, then the HP Vectra will be able to recognize it. I ended up with the following geometry for the ST31200N: 1006 cylinders * 64 heads * 32 sectors. I cannot, however, use the "dangerously dedicated" mode since it has to remain compatible with FAT which can be recognized by the HP Vectra machine -- besides, if I use the "dangerously dedicate" mode, FreeBSD forces the geometry to such which the HP Vectra machine does not recognize. Anyway, thank you to all of you... I would have given up if it weren't for you guys! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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