Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:46:20 +0000 From: John Murphy <sub02@freeode.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry. Message-ID: <mupj12hq5jndtunsncep9vej7iodfv7knt@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <ng6j12lip5iv1lssuo7ln9fvt4lmhsa39l@4ax.com> References: <bfui125c9jgq20m27knd38tlbq8mi351dj@4ax.com> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEHKHCAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> <ng6j12lip5iv1lssuo7ln9fvt4lmhsa39l@4ax.com>
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Mr J. Happy Chappy here, just noting a few observations: Jerry McAllister's and Lila's suggestions were quite right that the installer's fdisk would not affect the other partitions on the HD if it's allowed to just do its thing. Its interpretation of the geometry was entirely useful. Reinstalling (via FTP) and changing the partitions in the disklabel editor prevented the warning about using existing /dev but didn't make the fresh install boot. Had to reconfigure the boot manager (Ranish Partition Manager's smallest configuration) simply by saving it. I moved its 'active' partition from the FreeBSD slice to the win2k one, but I don't think that was what did it. As I had only done a minimal install, I tried installing the man pages from the disk and DVD drive I had initially tried to install from, and saw loads of similar read/write errors. The drive works flawlessly under windows and the disk is 'known good' as I have used it previously on other hardware. In fact; I was able to install the man pages from the same disk in another drive on the same PC: acd0: DVDR <PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108/1.14> at ata1-master UDMA66 acd1: CDRW <LITE-ON LTR-24103S/XB03> at ata1-slave UDMA33 Those drives are connected to the motherboard with a standard 40 conductor cable, not a proper 80 conductor one. I'll replace that soon and follow up to this message if it prevents the r/w errors. I'm expecting that to be the most likely cause :) Lastly (sorry for the verbosity), after the first successful run of the newly installed 6.0 and the tweak of the boot manager, when I ran the win2k installation it brought up an explorer window showing the contents of the e: virtual drive (the last one on the first HD) and a message box exclaiming that "windows had finished installing my new hardware" and the system needed to be re-booted. I did so and all's well that ends well... Xorg, nVidia drivers and KDE next. Thanks for reading. -- John.
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