Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 12:22:43 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.5 install question - bogus disk geometry? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980104115956.29924A-100000@alpha.sea-to-sky.net>
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I'm attempting to install 2.2.5-RELEASE onto a Quantum Fireball 1080MB IDE disk. Geometry is 2112/16/63, BIOS using "normal" mode. When booting from the install floppy the kernel correctly identifies this disk. However, when I go to partition the disk and select "use all" with "dangerously dedicated" mode, it produces a completely bogus geometry: 1028/255/63. According to the help in the install program, the geometry is not relevant for "dangerously dedicated" mode (BIOS geometry?), but when I go to set up the filesystem it gives me 8 gigs of space. Is this expected behavior? BTW, that is 1028 cylinders it claims as the geometry, not 1023 or 1024. I tried setting it manually to 2112/16/63, but then it loses the partition info and when I select "use all" again, the bogus geometry returns. I used to have FBSD 2.1.0 on this disk using "dangerously dedicated" mode but I've had to use microshaft since then so the original partition information is gone. Things were working fine with the older version, though.
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