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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI geometry on 9GB Seagate Date: 30 Nov 1995 09:02:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <49jru9$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <49b1vo$3ha@news1.is.net> <49b57g$b92@times.tfs.com> <49bbml$4la@news1.is.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 David Bixby <bix@otcinc.com> writes: > I have the same problem with both 2.1 SNAP and new 2.1 releases. For 2.1R, you can use the ``dangerously dedicated'' option. Go into the partition editor of sysinstall, select A)ll FreeBSD, and answer the next question with N)o. Don't blame me however if your messy DOS later installed over this disk doesn't boot :) -- but i don't suspect the user of a 9 GB disk to install DOS on it... If you're doing this at installation time, proceed as usual with Q)uit, and then the label editor. If you're doing it on a running system, just W)rite the new partition layout, and then leave sysinstall. Its label editor is not yet usable on a live system. Instead, run disklabel -r -e on the disk. All this will leave you with a disk that is _entirely_ dedicated to FreeBSD, from sector 0 to the very last one. This disk _cannot be shared_ with other systems, that's why it's not the default. Since it boots right off sector 0, you don't need to worry about any geometry hassles however. Of course, the root partition (for the /kernel) must be within the first 1024 virtual cylinders from the BIOS point of view (e.g. the first Gigabyte for an Adaptec) if you're going to boot off this drive. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)