Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 13:46:04 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> To: cz@aegisnet.biz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency Message-ID: <20040503204604.GB3646@freebsd.jolok.org> In-Reply-To: <20040503090312.GB3018@iluvatar.bbk.hh.aegisnet.de> References: <20040503090312.GB3018@iluvatar.bbk.hh.aegisnet.de>
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* Carsten Zimmermann <cz@aegisnet.biz> [2004-05-03 02:08]: > Hello list. > > I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting > google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. > > I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as > pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is not my > first install, but it won't work this time (using 5.2.1-R): > [snip] > > Important to say: the drive seems to work well on WinXP. I encountered > no problem there. Using the DEBUG=yes in the installation options menue > revealed some UDMA ICRC ... crap error style messages. Unofficially, something like this will work: 1) Swap the drives 2) Install FreeBSD on the [now] master 40GB drive 3) Install GAG (Graphical Boot Manager). You can find it here: http://gag.sourceforge.net/ GAG is very easy to install and setup, and will happily boot either OS from either drive. I have been running FreeBSD 4-stable on the same WD drive for around 3 years, and I like it alot. Note: there are other ways to do this. The above solution will get you where you want to go, but others may have more elegant solutions. -- Joshua "I've travelled the world and the seven seas; I am watching you through a camera!" -- Artie Ziff
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