Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:29:40 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: "Michael J. Turner" <mike@inethouston.net> Cc: Tarragon Allen <melange@n12turbo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd not seeing partitions correctly Message-ID: <3AADA234.AEEA2B7F@urx.com> References: <004e01c0ab4f$177b5a60$0204a8c0@blah1> <015c01c0ab62$3bd91100$0d01a8c0@casystems.net> <010801c0ab66$2ffd09a0$0204a8c0@blah1> <00a001c0ab74$59632640$0216a8c0@eburwd1.vic.optushome.com.au> <014501c0ab75$1204c640$0204a8c0@blah1>
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"Michael J. Turner" wrote: > > hmm.. well i just wish i could really find a conclusion to this prob > with fdisk not reading correctly. What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install. I have installed 4.2-release on a number of systems where the main HD is 20-30GB. I never let windows have my "c" drive for it's install and that probably changes things a bunch. Kent > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tarragon Allen" <melange@n12turbo.com> > To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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