From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 28 17:18:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01967 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:18:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mars.mds.com.sg (mars.mds.com.sg [203.127.216.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01933 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xichrome@pacific.net.ph) Received: from zeus.asiansources.com (root@zeusfr [203.172.0.46]) by mars.mds.com.sg (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29799; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:03:54 +0800 Received: from ph.asiansources.com (IDENT:mta@ph-2.asiansources.com [203.172.0.3]) by zeus.asiansources.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA24412; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:13:53 +0800 Received: from xichrome ([192.168.8.201]) by ph.asiansources.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0906 ID# 50-42442U500) with SMTP id AAA3482; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:56:38 +0800 Message-ID: <002d01be02d6$bf762340$c908a8c0@xichrome.asiansources.com> From: "Joubert Uriarte" To: , "Martin Machacek" , "Wes Peters" , "Alexander Kirpa" Subject: Re: Booting Problems Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:54:56 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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