From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 20:24: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D049A37B71C for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:23:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@inethouston.net) Received: from blah (24-240-235-143.hsacorp.net [24.240.235.143]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A176511131B; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:23:55 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <014501c0ab75$1204c640$0204a8c0@blah1> From: "Michael J. Turner" To: "Tarragon Allen" , References: <004e01c0ab4f$177b5a60$0204a8c0@blah1> <015c01c0ab62$3bd91100$0d01a8c0@casystems.net> <010801c0ab66$2ffd09a0$0204a8c0@blah1> <00a001c0ab74$59632640$0216a8c0@eburwd1.vic.optushome.com.au> Subject: Re: Freebsd not seeing partitions correctly Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:21:24 -0600 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmm.. well i just wish i could really find a conclusion to this prob with fdisk not reading correctly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tarragon Allen" To: Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:16 PM Subject: Re: Freebsd not seeing partitions correctly > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message