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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!csus.edu!lirwin From: lirwin@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Loren Irwin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.0.5-ALPHA Install Difficulty Date: 9 Jun 1995 06:17:02 GMT Organization: California State University Sacramento Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3r8p0u$7ch@news.csus.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lirwin%@blaze.csci.csusb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I seem to be having some kind of drive geometry problem. I have a 540MB IDE drive, and I want to use the whole drive for FreeBSD. The CMOS is set to the actual geometry, 1048 cyl, 16 Hds, 63 Sect from the drive manual. Of course, this large geometry doesn't work in DOS, but it shouldn't be a problem with FreeBSD, should it? The drive is probed with these same numbers, but in the partition screen, it shows some weird numbers: 383 cyl, 244 Hds, 29 Sect and shows the incorrect number of total sectors. So I select Set BIOS Geom and set it to the real geometry. But the number of sectors total doesn't get updated to the real number. I created a partion using the correct number of sectors, did the labeling, and installed. It seemed to work, but after the whole install, when rebooting, the first prompt, "boot:", comes up, and wont go any farther; It just keeps rebooting the machine. I tried installing again, and on later attempts the partition screen showed the correct number of total sectors. Looking at the Debug screen, I noticed that it said something like, "Warning: calculated sectors per track is different from disklabel." This was during newfs, I think. Thanks for any help you can give.. -------- Loren Irwin lirwin@admin1101dp.ucr.edu