Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:00:08 -0500 From: Jason Pfeil <jpfeil@lsi.fsu.edu> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, pfeil@cs.fsu.edu, pfeil@cs.fsu.edu, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, pfeil@cs.fsu.edu Subject: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) Message-ID: <36D58198.CF76B6C0@lsi.fsu.edu>
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To Whom it May Concern: I am an avid and very experienced Linux user and would like to try the other kid on the block -- FreeBSD. I have a new drive, but when I try to create BSD slices in a partition whose type I changed to freebsd from within the installation, it tells me that I cannot do that. Here are the results from fdisk /dev/hdc (the HD) under Linux: < -- begin transcript -- > # fdisk /dev/hdc The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19650. This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19650 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 1 2081 1048792+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc2 2048 2082 6243 2097648 83 Linux native /dev/hdc3 6144 6244 10405 2097648 83 Linux native /dev/hdc4 10240 10406 19650 4659480 5 Extended Command (m for help): q < -- end transcript -- > I am trying to change the type of partition /dev/hdc1 (linux naming) to freebsd under the freebsd installation and create a slice for swap and a slice for a partition. Unfortunately, I get an error saying that I can't create the partition. LBA is on under the BIOS, and Linux has no problems with the drive. This is the third HD in my system and therefore LILO will not be running off of it so it shouldn't be limited by the BIOS when booting freebsd off of this partition. One option I haven't tried, but was hoping you would have a better solution, was to copy off the data I already have on the drive, do a low-level format to erase everything and see if I can coerce LBA under my BIOS to reduce the cylinder to <= 1024 by increasing the number of heads. Do you have ANY other solution? Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Jason A. Pfeil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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