Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:33:47 -0600 From: Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD install doesn't see the whole disk Message-ID: <3C534AEB.A24D9707@attbi.com> References: <3C533643.E161CC67@attbi.com>
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Joe Halpin wrote: > > I just put a new 30GB drive in my test machine (Maxtor IDE). When I > tried to install, fdisk didn't get the drive size right. So I used the > 'G' option and set the drive geometry manually. The summary at the top > of the screen looked correct after that, but the 'C' create option > apparently didn't get updated, and wouldn't let me create more than a > 2GB partition. A little more detail: Both Windows and Linux installation programs recognised the disk size correctly. The BIOS likewise gives the correct size and says it's in LBA mode (which it is). I had RedHat 7.1 installed on the disk previously. I first booted from a 4.5RC2 iso image I had successfully used before. Then I tried creating a DOS partition and installing DOS first, then tried the 4.5RC2 CD again. No go. Then I downloaded new boot floppy images from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ but they had the same problem. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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