Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 06:30:25 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: "Michael D. Corbett" <mcorbett@halcyon.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <199603051430.GAA28277@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Mar 1996 20:00:56 PST." <Pine.ULT.3.91.960304192621.9487A-100000@chinook.halcyon.com>
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>Newbie attempting to install 2.1, please set phasors no higher than stun. :)
>
>First sign of trouble:
>FDISK (or whatever it's called in BSD land) complains about the Geometry
>of drive 0. I notice it's set to 1030/64/32. I read the docs. Seems I
>should change it to have fewer than 1024 cylenders. Okay, I make it
>515/128/32. I do this for both drives, as I'm putting the swap partition
>for BSD on the second hard drive.
Your geometry is wrong. It should be:
Extended translation enabled in SCSI-Select of the 2940:
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, #MB reported by the disk probe / 7 cylinders
Extended translation disabled in SCSI-Select of the 2940:
64 heads, 32 secotors/track, #MB reported by the disk probe cylinders
Since the 2940 ships with extended translation enabled, you probably want
the first geometry. Of course, as it states in your Adaptec manual, only
DOS requires extended translation (your boot partition for FreeBSD (ie /)
must reside entirely below the 1gig boundary so that the BIOS can get
to the boot blocks if you do turn off extended translation).
>BSD Guru's, please help!!! This has been going on for days and I'm
>getting frustrated!
>
>Thanks - Mike
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>#include <std_disclaimer.h>
>
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Justin T. Gibbs
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