Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:25:46 +0530 From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: problems with disk geometry Message-ID: <0875205C-1D71-4C83-8A60-1E035D3C90AB@acm.org>
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hello, Im trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 beta5 on a samsung SP1604N hard disk of about 160 GB. The installer complains that it has a problem with the disk geometry. The exact message is given below:- ------------------------------------------ A geometry of 310101/16/63 is incorrect for ad1. Using a more likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect.. pl. consult the hardware guide ------------------------------------------- fdisk goes through the process of creating the reqd slices and when I try to commit the new partition table -it says it cannot write to / dev/ad1. Can someone tell me how to get past this problem? thanks -kamal Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ kamalp@acm.org
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