From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Sep 6 19:25:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29716 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 19:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lambic.physics.montana.edu (lambic.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29710 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 19:25:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (handy@localhost) by lambic.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA04985; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:24:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:24:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Brian Handy To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning HD's on a TP In-Reply-To: <199809062212.PAA10291@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: X-files: The truth is out there MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [I've solved my own problem... >> I'm setting up an IBM TP560X with a relatively gargantuan 6.4GB hard drive >> to run Win95 and FreeBSD. >> >> My plan was to make the Win95 partition 2GB and give the rest to FreeBSD, >> but I seem to be bumping up against the "keep all your root partitions >> below the 1024 cylinder limit" problem. In the tutorials there is talk of >> using an "LBA" mode under some BIOS setups. I haven't been able to locate >> this animal in the startup stuff on my Thinkpad. > >Boot the FreeBSD install floppy with "-v" and when sysinstall comes up, >use the scrollback to look for the "BIOS geometries" message. OK, I figured out what's up. I was starting with blank, empty hard drives, and sysinstall wasn't getting the geometry right. I went in with MS-DOS, fdisk and format and made partitions and formatted the first one. Having done this, suddenly the disk geometry changed completely and I was able to do what I wanted to do. Interestingly...FreeBSD guessed the geometry to have something like 13,000 cylinders on a 6.4GB HD. When I DOS-formatted the first partition, that number dropped down to < 900. :-) SO: The TP's seem to have LBA in the BIOS. (I think that's what this means anyway.) Always keep your old MS-DOS floppies running around. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message