Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:01:34 +0200 (CEST) From: "Jesus A. Mora" <jmora@hvm.sas.cica.es> To: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: jmora@ahvm.hvm.sas.cica.es, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with my hard disk geometry? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10106180827390.6544-100000@groucho.hvm.sas.cica.es> In-Reply-To: <200106161557.LAA00609@scraemondaemon.my.domain>
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Ian P. Thomas wrote: > FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS for drive geometry, it gets it from the > disk. Windows does use the BIOS. If you have the root partition of > FreeBSD installed before the 1024 cylinder, or roughly 8 GB in your case, > then it should work fine. You also need to make sure to install booteasy > on the disk. It will allow you to choose from Windows or FreeBSD at > startup. > > Ian > In fact, it DID work -apparently- fine until I reinstalled Windows. Before the reinstallation I booted FreeBSD up several times, customized the kernel, installed a port for XFree86 4.1.0... and Windows began to behave strangely (I mean, more than usual). Maybe it's only a coincidence. Now, once reinstalled Windows, it works as expected... but FreeBSD refuses to boot, even though booteasy was reinstalled in the MBR. Well, it seems to me a problem related to the geometry of the HD and to those stupid limitations in the design of so many subsystems of the IBM PC-derived computers. So, I think I have two options: 1) repartition the HD, in order to relocate the FreeBSD slice on the first 1024 cylinders. That's a nuisance since I should have to have two slices -and two logical drives and two directory hierarchies- for Win98. 2) install a second HD dedicated exclusively to FreeBSD. That's the way I have decided to go, since it guarantees me that no unexpected and obscure interactions between both OSes will occur. So many thanks for the help, and see you again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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