From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 11:38:14 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA02451 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:38:14 -0800 Received: from cybernetics.net (root@server0.cybernetics.net [198.80.48.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA02431 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:38:13 -0800 Received: from ws0.cybernetics.net by cybernetics.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12968; Thu, 2 Mar 95 11:10:13 EST Received: by ws0.cybernetics.net (8.6.9/Sea-0.0c) id LAA07333; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:05:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:05:47 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Quigley To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Large ATA Disk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I know that this question is FAQ because I've read all the FAQs that I could get my hands on. Yet, I am still having a problem. The machine is a DEC P5-90 with a 1.2gig ATA/IDE hard drive. This system has been running FreeBSD in the past, and was installed around 6 months ago. Now I am having to reinstall it, and am running into a situation where I simply cannot get it to boot off of the hard disk. I know its a geometry mapping problem, but I cannot seem to correct it. I have the 'Large Disk Access Mode' option in the BIOS setup set to 'Other' (which is says is for Unix/etc). When I run utilities like IDEINFO under DOS, it reports different BIOS geometry than physical disk geometry. I don't remember having this much trouble the first time I installed FreeBSD, but I've been working on this for a while now with no success. Any ideas or pointers would be GREATLY appreciated. - Mike _____ __ __ Michael F. Quigley | / ___/_ __/ / ___ _______ ___ / /___ __ System Administration | / /__/ // / _ \/ -_) __/ _ \/ -_) __/\ \/ / Cybernetx, Inc. | \___/\_, /_.__/\__/_/ /_//_/\__/\__/ /_/\_\ (michael@cybernetics.net) /___/