Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:06:58 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@lambda> To: test-owner@salem.ge.com (Stephen F. Combs) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problems with Installing 2.0.5R Message-ID: <199506201808.TAA05363@lambda> In-Reply-To: <199506201242.IAA09685@combs.salem.ge.com> from "Stephen F. Combs" at Jun 20, 95 08:42:40 am
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In reply to Stephen F. Combs who said > > 2) Using the ST31200, I couldn't get it to accept the > untranslated geometry. The system has ONLY FreeBSD on it > (no DOS, no OS/2, no WinNT). The only way the system would > work, is to create a 1MB DOS partition (which forced > translated geometry) and then delete it and assign the > entire disk to FreeBSD. > Had the same problem. Nothing on the disk at all, completely new disk Couldn't install FreeBSD on it for two reasons. 1) sysinstall no longer allows BIOS-invalid geomtries. I was greeted by an error message "geometry invalid (or something like that)". 2) I didn't know what the NCR standard geometry was. Result: Had to install DOS to find out what geometry to use. There must be some way to do this. Is there something we can do from the botblock before going to protected mode to find out what the SCSI BIOS is going to default to? -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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