Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:27:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jef Dodson <jefdodson@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: drive geometry error Message-ID: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive. I get a message saying that the drive geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry. When I try to set the geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error message and the values get set back to the "more likely" values. Everything seems to go fine until I try to commit the installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written to. The drive currently has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the FreeBSD installation, i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS. Also, the MB is an Asus with an AMD Athlon 3200+ processor, if that matters. I've seen lots of posts in various places about problems similar to this, but no real solutions. I also tried a to install a small DOS partition first as I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect. Thanks. Jef __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
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