[RndTbl] FreeBSD 7 install -- help required!
Kevin McGregor
kmcgregor at shaw.ca
Mon Apr 14 19:20:34 CDT 2008
The motherboard is an ASUS M2A-VM with both SATA and PATA. I've been
trying to install to the WD400 (~40 GB) PATA drive (master, CD-ROM is
the slave). It seems to work fine during the install.
Sean Cody wrote:
>>>
>>> At the beginning of the install, it complained about the drive
>>> geometry (how 90s). The FreeBSD installer indicates that the
>>> geometry is set to 77545/16/63, that this is wrong, and it's using
>>> something better, which turns out to be 4865/255/63. When I go into
>>> the BIOS, it reports the geometry to be 19158/16/255. FreeBSD
>>> doesn't let me set the geometry to either of the two other ones!
>>>
>
> This is the real clue.
> How big is the disk?
>
> I've seen this happen before but mostly on VERY large disk arrays (1TB+).
> If sysinstall is complaining about the disk geometry you won't be able
> to boot from that drive.
> Sysinstall is really old and busted but this is a portent to other
> issues.
>
> The other reason for this complaint is if the disk controller on your
> motherboard isn't supported all that well.
> Is this SATA/PATA?
> What is the Motherboard model as well as the drive model numbers?
>
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