From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 09:59:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC7816A4DC for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:59:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2425343D31 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:59:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20041128095859i9100rg0qme>; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:58:59 +0000 Message-ID: <41A9A161.1040002@nbritton.org> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:58:57 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041119) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jef Dodson References: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive geometry error X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:59:00 -0000 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" > > >