From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 21 7:35:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F50E37BD62 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:35:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com) Received: from sse0691.bri.hp.com (sse0691.bri.hp.com [15.144.0.53]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30336319 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:35:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by sse0691.bri.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA54033; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:31:38 GMT (envelope-from steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:31:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome To: "Jason J. Horton" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting kernel from large drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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): , 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