From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 15:52:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8645016A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:52:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206FD43D46 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:52:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so200425wra for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:52:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject:date:x-mailer:sender; b=ai4VOInRVxvcl3SDHdvC5Ed+2d+xG+snTwVixBHZhOK6NL0HM3gUxLtm8nyDBltAM0lNxDYZxayfF2eI3BYdFcvAkG1GC6d8Mn49UmIDhUIgsJZvFw1FLktoN5utqwKQCarLuiQKqtUGEulOoSna6KbMPi1plPJXzsfqivfBAZ4= Received: by 10.54.109.11 with SMTP id h11mr1327240wrc; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.20? ( [59.92.145.227]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 13sm178841wrl.2005.10.06.08.52.39; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <0875205C-1D71-4C83-8A60-1E035D3C90AB@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "Kamal R. Prasad" Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:25:46 +0530 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Sender: "Kamal R. Prasad" Subject: problems with disk geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:52:42 -0000 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