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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install Complexity Date: 17 Jan 1996 22:53:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4djukg$d6u@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ddq7e$3sg@wolfe.wimsey.com> <4dhkqh$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> <SOUCHU.96Jan17104614@becassine.news.u-psud.fe> 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 souchu@becassine.news.u-psud.fe (Nicolas Souchu) writes: > I've tried all solutions, DOS-compatible-partitioning, > DOS-incompatible, the install is ok, but the system does not want to > boot. My BIOS geometry is simple... 989/15/56 << 1024. What's your actual problem? Where is the installation doing something wrong? > I've tried to read src/release files to understand the warnings during > partitioning (4096 sectors / cylinder !! but my hardware accept 840 !), > but... difficult. Don't worry. This message is harmless and has been eliminated since (at least in 2.2-current, i'm not absolutely sure about 2.1). Btw., the geometry hassles are nothing `invented' by FreeBSD. It's just the braindead decision of the ancient BIOS. -- 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. ;-)