Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:03:12 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with 170MB HD (FreeBSD 6.0) Message-ID: <20051205160312.GA37351@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <370076f10512041312u27835972n806937f4e710534e@mail.gmail.com> References: <370076f10512041312u27835972n806937f4e710534e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04 Dec Christian Wurst wrote: > I booted up from CD and started creating slices on the HDs, which > worked perfectly for the primary master HD (the 10GB one). But > sysinstall complained about an incorrect geometry setting for the > 170MB drive and asked me to enter them manually. I didn't want to > reboot to get the BIOS values and tried to finish the install without > swap at all - which worked. > Both drives worked well under Linux, so I think > it's no hardware-problem. > > Any hints would be greatly appreciated. FreeBSD not only suggested to give the values manually; it also assumed the right values itself! You say both drives work well under linux. I can tell you from own experience that the drive values linux uses are 99.9% the _same_ as the guessed values by freebsd. So, my advice would be: dont use the bios values; leave the guessed values alone. (freebsd not linux are stupid ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve
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