From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 17:48:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72D637B4EC for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-6.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.135]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29158 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:11:33 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Subject: Poor recognition of drive partitions Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:09:07 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01021318240209.02553@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 onto an old laptop which has an old IDE controller which will not recognise >540M HD I have installed a 1.7G HD using Maxtor's ezsetup. This works. I have partitioned the drive using Partition Magic and installed Win3.11 on the first 250M, leaving the remainder free for BSD. However, when I get to the "make partitions" part of the install process, this is what I see: (I have used fixed font and 5 spaces between columns in the table) Disk Name: ad0 DISK geometry: 850 cyls/64 heads/63 sectors = 3427200 sectors (1673MB) Offset Size(MB) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 0 62 - 6 unused 0 63 1671 3423167 as0s1 1 unknown 85 3423168 1 3427199 - 6 unused 0 In this condition, the cursor key operation is invisible/inactive and if I get the system to reate it offers me a suitable partition of 4032 sectors (ie 2M). The geometry is right, but Free BSD is clearly unable to read correctly the partition table created by Partition Magic. Work-around or solutions, anyone? -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message