From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 12:36:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA09628 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 12:36:37 -0800 Received: from mailgate.ericsson.se (mailgate.ericsson.se [130.100.2.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA09621 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 12:36:28 -0800 Received: from egg.lmc.ericsson.se (egg.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.32.1]) by mailgate.ericsson.se (8.6.11/1.0) with SMTP id VAA23778 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 21:36:17 +0100 Received: from bolos.lmc.ericsson.com (bolos.lmc.ericsson.se) by egg.lmc.ericsson.se (4.1/LME-2.2) id AA27481; Fri, 10 Nov 95 15:27:01 EST Received: by bolos.lmc.ericsson.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02054; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:24:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:24:49 -0500 (EST) From: Samy Touati X-Sender: lmcsato@bolos To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IDE HD > 1Gb In-Reply-To: <199511090153.RAA05812@ref.tfs.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > > > > >