Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:55:34 +0000 From: John McDonnell <mcdonnjd@pcam.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: POS system trashing hard drives during install Message-ID: <BLUPR07MB32104F7060C5274DB841958BAE50@BLUPR07MB321.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <BLUPR07MB3215DC6A24C81D223FD6EA3BAE40@BLUPR07MB321.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> References: <BLUPR07MB321C9B805585AB5A6456D0ABAE00@BLUPR07MB321.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1512172208100.4409@wonkity.com>, <BLUPR07MB3216D5F435ACE02480752CBBAE40@BLUPR07MB321.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> <A09B69E6B9C91963.1-0f9df8ab-2681-4d43-8ca6-2b8a2979e123@mail.outlook.com> <BLUPR07MB3215DC6A24C81D223FD6EA3BAE40@BLUPR07MB321.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>
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I just downloaded and booted from the NetBSD install disk and was presented= with a screen I haven't seen in FreeBSD in some time. NetBSD was unable to= match my hard drive to one detected by the BIOS. I remember when pretty mu= ch every install of FreeBSD would prompt me with that message about the rep= orted geometry not matching. I can't recall why the prompt no longer shows = up in FreeBSD, but perhaps it could be behind the issues I'm having? For comparision, here is what I have found about the geometry: NetBSD reports: Cylinders: 1023 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 The BIOS by default is set to autodetect the mode for the hard drive and re= ports these settings: Cylinders: 19158 Heads: 16 Sectors: 255 Capacity: 40022MB Changing to CHS mode gives the same results. Changing to LBA mode reports: Cylinders: 4865 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 Capacity: 40018 MB And last, changing to LARGE reports: Cylinders: 1277 Heads: 240 Sectors: 155 Capacity: 40016 MB Obviously none of these match what NetBSD is reporting. I then told the sys= tem to accept NetBSD's recommendation of the geometry for the hard drive an= d did an install. Upon reboot, I had no issues and booted right into NetBSD= . So it seems that NetBSD, Linux and Windows all have no issues on this mac= hine but whatever FreeBSD is doing with hard drives is the issue. While NetBSD or Linux are suitable solutions, I really would prefer FreeBSD= . Does anyone have any insight into what to try next? I don't mind doing a = completely manual install from the shell if needed, though it has been a wh= ile since I've done that. I usually use the installer for as much as possib= le to simplify the process and only drop to a shell for possibly hard drive= set up and tossing some things into /boot/loader.conf when finished. Thank you once again for your time. --=20 John McDonnell mcdonnjd@pcam.org
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