From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 15:21:42 2004 Return-Path: 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 47B8B16A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msr2.hinet.net (msr2.hinet.net [168.95.4.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E1F43D49 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net) Received: from sonic.utopia.com (61-227-219-8.dynamic.hinet.net [61.227.219.8]) by msr2.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA07423 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:21:39 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:02:14 +0800 From: Robert Storey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040602060214.07c72867.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <200406011423.i51ENcUG001683@mist.nodomain> References: <200406011423.i51ENcUG001683@mist.nodomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Disk geometry salad... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:21:42 -0000 > > 2) When installing FreeBSD, sysinstall warns that a geometry of the > > first drive (1) as it detects it (77545/16/63) is incorrect and > > can't be used. It automatically replaces the values with > > 4865/255/63. The problem is that after replacing the geometry with > > 4865/255/63 the number of LBA sectors (as listed in the Disk Slice > > editor) becomes lower than the manufacturer spec (78,156,225 instead > > of 78,165,360). What does this mean? You've encountered a well-known bug in the installer. I've experienced it too and so have many others. During the install, when you're in the fdisk partition editor, just hitting "g" is usually all you have to do to correct the bug. If you've already installed, I'm not sure what you can do to correct the bug other than go back and reinstall, this time hitting "g". There might be another way to change disk geometry without doing that, but I don't know how (anybody reading this know?). You might want to take a look at the following article, the geometry bug is discussed about 1/3 down from the top: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-freebsd regards, Robert