From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 12:57:49 2002 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 4DD4B37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:57:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from witchspace.com (pc1-rdng1-4-cust239.winn.cable.ntl.com [80.3.250.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DAA343E4A for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: (qmail 60173 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 20:57:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO witchspace.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.witchspace.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2002 20:57:39 -0000 Received: from 192.168.0.100 (proxying for 192.168.0.100) (SquirrelMail authenticated user jon) by webmail.witchspace.com with HTTP; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:57:39 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4455.192.168.0.100.1038949059.squirrel@webmail.witchspace.com> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:57:39 -0000 (GMT) Subject: [Q] Disk geometry problems From: To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Hiya I've just built a server based around an Epox KT333 mmotherboard and Athlon processor. I booted from the 4.7 CD, but when I went to the slice editor sysinstall complained that my disk geometery was incorrect and it was using its own values. I tried using 'G' to set the geometry to the BIOS values but sysinstall rejected them. It wouldn't have bothered me that much, but the machine wouldn't boot into FreeBSD after the installation. It just went away for a while, then gave the 'missing system disk' error. Although it's possible that booting is failing for some reason other than the geometry issue, has anyone else run into a similar problem before? The BIOS's idea of the disk geometry: Cyl 28733 Head 16 Precomp 0 Landing Zone 28732 Sector 255 FreeBSD says: Cyl 7297 Head 255 Sector 63 I could try setting the BIOS geometry to the FreeBSD geometry (which would require switching from LBA mode to CHS), is this likely to make any difference? Cheers, --Jon http://www.witchspace.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message