Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:05:14 +1200 From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: disk layout for install Message-ID: <199905220705.TAA03073@aniwa.sky>
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I'm trying to set up a new instalation of 3.2-RELEASE on a 10.2 gig IDE drive. Everything looks OK when I'm installing, but once I get to the boot loader it just beeps whenever I try to select any of the boot options. After an initial failure at a straight network install, I installed by first laying out the disk, then going into fixit mode and ftp'ing the core distributions onto a spare area of the drive, then installing from the mounted file system. I made 3 partitions. In order, a 2 GB DOS partition, a 4GB BSD partition, and a 3.5GB BSD partition. I'm not sure what happened to the other 700MB, but the installer said that was all that was there. The installer comes up with a different drive configuration to what the drive says on it's case. The case says 16383 Cylinders/16 Heads/63 Sectors. The installer initially said the disk had 256 Heads. and less Cylinders (didn't write down the number) I read an old post in freebsd-stable which said that the root partition had to be within 1024 *virtual* cylinders of the start of the disk. Does that mean I can just set the number of heads as I like and the disk driver will behave as though it were true, or do I have to lay out the disk with a small DOS boot area at the start and then the BSD boot area? If I can set the number of heads that the system thinks it has, does this impact on performance? Andrew -- ----------- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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