Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:31:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com> To: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting kernel from large drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002211525420.53819-100000@sse0691.bri.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002191240200.46956-100000@kaon.intercom.com>
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Jason J. Horton wrote: > I have a -STABLE system with a 27gig IBM EIDE, and when I set up the > system, I only made 2 partitions, / and swapspace. The system has been > working just fine, till I did a "make world" and installed a new kernel. I got a whole pile of problems with my 34Gb IDM drive, in the end I needed a new BIOS to get it to work properly, or had to fake the geometry in the BIOS because the drive has >65k cyls. I never figured out what the LBA errors are, but they've gone away since I played with the BIOS and told it was in fact a 4160/255/63 drive in CHS mode. (The disk says I should tell the BIOS it's 16383/16/63, but that didn't work at all =( ) I had to set it up like so to get it to work : wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <IBM-DPTA-373420>, LBA, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 32634MB (66835440 sectors), 4160 cyls, 255 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S If you have a solution that works well it would be interesting to know how you've done it and what Motherboard/BIOS you've got. Steve P.S. your problems may be entirely unrelated of course and have a far easier solution, this is just my £0.02 worth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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