Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:24:49 -0500 (EST) From: Samy Touati <lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IDE HD > 1Gb Message-ID: <Pine.Sola.3.91.951110152317.2009A-100000@bolos> In-Reply-To: <199511090153.RAA05812@ref.tfs.com>
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So if I understand it if I buy a 1.0Gb HD, and plug it on my existing IDE controller everything will work fine if I use the entire disk for FreeBSD? I'll get into trouble when I'll decide to partition the HD for 2 OS. Samy On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > > 2448 cyl and 16 heads, it is remapped to appear to have 612 cyl and 64 > > heads. > > Since FreeBSD uses the geometry from the disk (2448x16x63) instead of > > from the BIOS table (612x64x63), it gets confused. > NONONONO.. > you need to tell freebsd when installing or running fdisk > to use the BIOS geometry..! > you're assuming we managed to undo all the BIOS brain dammage, but we couldn't > do that and still boot, so we use the BIOS figures.. > > especially for the boot sectors! > you seem to have used the real geometry, but unfortunatly, > you need the BIOS geometry for the (BIOS BASED) bootblocks to be able to run. > > > > Mark > > > > > >
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