From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 07:44:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA02131 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 07:44:21 -0700 Received: from transarc.com (transarc.com [192.54.226.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA02122 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 07:44:19 -0700 Received: by transarc.com (5.54/3.15) id for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Apr 95 10:44:10 EDT Received: via switchmail; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:44:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unix3 via qmail ID ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:42:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unix3 via qmail ID ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cui.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix3.sun4.40 via MS.5.6.unix3.sun4_40; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:42:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:42:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat_Barron@transarc.com To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing on large IDE drives Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk OK, I feel like a moron for asking this, but I've read the FAQs several times I'm I'm still not sure. I have a Maxtor 7850 AV disk. This is an IDE drive with 1654 cylinders, which does not do any kind of translation. When I'm installing 2.0R (using the "newer" floppy images) I can diddle the geometry in FDISK so that it's recorded as 1023 cylinders (the largest value my BIOS will accept), but when I tell it "Use entire disk for FreeBSD", it still sets it up for 1654 cylinders. Anyway, when I try to install like that, all the newfs's and such work fine, and the install proceeds without incident to the "remove the floppys now and reboot from the hard disk" point, but then the boot manager can not load FreeBSD. Which tells me that it's having a problem with the drive geometry. Is there any way I can get this working, getting FreeBSD to use the entire drive while the BIOS only knows about 1023 cylinders? Am I just completely hosed? Thanks for any advice..... --Pat.