From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 28 23:10:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA24187 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 23:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA24181 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 23:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA13549; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 23:13:43 -0700 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 23:13:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: SINELNIKOV@sbmp04.ess.sunysb.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cont'd!!! Boot hangs In-Reply-To: <960426220417.20400538@sbmp04.ess.sunysb.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Apr 1996 SINELNIKOV@sbmp04.ess.sunysb.edu wrote: > Hello list, > > Thank you for your help, though freebsd still hangs at the boot prompt. > However I noted some warrnings it issues during the instalation. If anyone > can tell me what they mean I will be very gratefull: > > DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for swap partition > Warrning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagree with disk label > (840) > /dev/rwd0a: 65536 sec in 16 cyl of 1 track, 4096 sec > 32.0Mb in 1 cyl groups (16c/g, 32Mb/g, 3840 i/g) Yup, this is a geometry problem. Try making a small DOS partition on that disk, then delete it and make the FreeBSD partition over it in sysinstall/fdisk. > Is that related to disk geometry? I use the autodetect hard drive from BIOS. > I have also never seen the dos partition properly alligned (no '=' sign)... > What is the other way to get right disk geometry? I noted also that is CMOS the > size of the disk is 405Mb as chkdsk report 424Mb? Different computation. Your CMOS may be using 2^20 (1,040...) B/MB for 1MB, and CHKDSK may be using 10^6 (1million) B/ MB. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major