Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:13:15 +0530 From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> To: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd has problems with bios Message-ID: <A4EB532F-E504-49CB-8F63-CA03000CB9BF@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <57416b300510122305q45ea25a5i9da5d8fe56e6e0aa@mail.gmail.com> References: <BA28DC66-E4C7-4C40-8332-D69D15B73FEF@acm.org> <57416b300510121719x1ae4033ue1f1af49e028512d@mail.gmail.com> <4F393520-539B-44F6-92BD-860CCF51A278@acm.org> <57416b300510122305q45ea25a5i9da5d8fe56e6e0aa@mail.gmail.com>
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I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may be unstable. I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve the problem. Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with freebsd. regards -kamal On 13-Oct-05, at 11:35 AM, Peter Clutton wrote: >> The bios has 4 modes auto, large, lba, chs in which to access the >> hard disk. I ttried all 4 modes and it doesn't solve the problem. >> > > No, i didn't say to try different bios modes. I said (which fdisk also > says) that you should: > 1. Go into the bios, see what it reports as the CHS > 2. Reboot (i thought this part was a given to get back to Fdisk) > 3. When you get up to the fdisk section, enter the CHS value given to > you by the bios > using the g key, and writing it manually. > Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ kamalp@acm.org
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