From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 13 19:27:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20099 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:27:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20058 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:27:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA19512; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:27:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Roger P. Johnson" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: follow up: Re: HELP! on drive Geometry and I just can't get it! Just cant't In-Reply-To: <199803131406.IAA18050@fep.hirshfields.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Roger P. Johnson wrote: > Brian, I tried low level formatting it again (been through sooo many > combo's, thought I'd try from scratch again), re-installing FBSD from > scratch, dedicating the whole drive to FBSD, no luck. I get that 'Read > error' on boot again. :( This is probably your problem. I bet you're using an Award BIOS; apparently they have a cow if the partition table doesn't exist. Try making the disk in compatibility mode; see FAQ question #8.9 for details. I had the same problem when I test-formatted a 1GB disk for the diskformat tutorial. My workstation is an ASUS T2P4-based board with the Award BIOS. I should have studied that problem further at that point :-/ I even put a warning in the diskformat tutorial, which I later removed by popular demand. I will probably reverse that and join the FAQ in printing the Award/dedicated disk warning. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message