From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 16:03:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B60116A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:03:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE5B43D6B for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:03:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:03:12 +0100 id 0003982D.439464C0.0000929E Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:03:12 +0100 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20051205160312.GA37351@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <370076f10512041312u27835972n806937f4e710534e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <370076f10512041312u27835972n806937f4e710534e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: dick hoogendijk Subject: Re: Problems with 170MB HD (FreeBSD 6.0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:03:27 -0000 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