From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 20:15: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au (ha1.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au [203.164.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744AE37B71B for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from melange@n12turbo.com) Received: from roy ([203.164.69.217]) by mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010313041457.ISRX15800.mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au@roy> for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:14:57 +1100 Message-ID: <00a001c0ab74$59632640$0216a8c0@eburwd1.vic.optushome.com.au> From: "Tarragon Allen" To: References: <004e01c0ab4f$177b5a60$0204a8c0@blah1> <015c01c0ab62$3bd91100$0d01a8c0@casystems.net> <010801c0ab66$2ffd09a0$0204a8c0@blah1> Subject: Re: Freebsd not seeing partitions correctly Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:16:16 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I have a 15gig drive with two partitions. one is 10GB the other is 5GB. On the 10GB >I have winME, I want to install freebsd on the 5GB. Well the problem is that when I >try to install FreeBSD and I am in Fdisk it only see's 2GB. >This is what is showing up: >Disk Geometry: 256cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 4112640 sectors (2008MB) FreeBSD isn't detecting your disk geometry correctly, or is getting confused by the BIOS settings. I saw a fix for this recently on the OpenBSD list which involved calculating an alternate geometry and entering these values in manually, but I'm not sure on the details, sorry. The thing that gives it away is the maxed out value for "heads" (255 is the max value). t To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message