From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 19:51:11 2003 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 E083737B405 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (conn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7167D43F3F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:51:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennisr@visi.com) Received: from visi.com (dennisr.dsl.visi.com [208.42.90.154]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6ADF823A for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:51:09 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3E35FE2D.7000009@visi.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:51:09 -0600 From: dennis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030126 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 5.0 install help - slicing disk problems X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am trying to install freebsd 5.0 on a Maxtor 52049U4 20G hard drive. The disk is slaved on ide0. The fdisk will not let me create a slice larger than 2G. Further more I can not create any number of slices totaling more than 2G. The mobo is a MSI KT4 ulta with a VIA KT400 chipset. The onboard ide controller is a VIA VT8235 chipset. The drive geometry is always reported incorrectly when I boot from the freebsd installation cdrom. When I set the geometry manually the size is reported correctly but I am still unable to slice the disk larger than 2GB. Are these problems related to the new-ness of my mobo and chipset or am I just doing something wrong? Is there a work around for the problem? I want to dedicate the entire disk to the freebsd installation. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message