Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:07:42 +0100 From: Frank Altpeter <frank.altpeter@gmail.com> To: Thomas Beer <nohuman@gmail.com> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM T42p Hard Drive Issue Message-ID: <e367ea1005010511076e52848f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5e51d2fd0501051018197d1f37@mail.gmail.com> References: <5e51d2fd05010509186ce427b3@mail.gmail.com> <41DC2877.2020804@hccnet.nl> <5e51d2fd0501051018197d1f37@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:18:35 +0100, Thomas Beer <nohuman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:48:39 +0100, D. Wylie <d.wylie@hccnet.nl> wrote:
> > What error.
> > Are you saying the error doesn't appear with fdisk from 4.x but only
> > with fdisk from 5.x?
>
> Correct. It states that the Geometry fdisk is assuming differs with that
> the BIOS issues. So I should correct the BIOS disk setting, which,
> apparently, are correct.
If your BIOS settings for the recovery system is correct (i.e. "hide
content from OS") then you can safely ignore that error message and
install 5.3.
Did that on my T40 and works fine.
HTH,
Frank Altpeter
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