Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:58:57 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Jef Dodson <jefdodson@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive geometry error Message-ID: <41A9A161.1040002@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com>
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Jef Dodson wrote: >Hello, >I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive. I get a message saying that the drive >geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry. When I try to set the >geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error message and the values get >set back to the "more likely" values. Everything seems to go fine until I try to commit the >installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written to. > I'm not sure whether you changed the values and then installed or left them alone and then installed.... I've have this happen a few times before. I just ignored the message and continued on with the install as normal, I have had no problems with those computers. > The drive currently >has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the FreeBSD installation, >i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS. Also, the MB is an Asus with an AMD Athlon >3200+ processor, if that matters. I've seen lots of posts in various places about problems >similar to this, but no real solutions. I also tried a to install a small DOS partition first as >I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect. Thanks. > >Jef > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. >http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo >_______________________________________________ >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" > > >
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