Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:18:35 +0100 From: Thomas Beer <nohuman@gmail.com> To: "D. Wylie" <d.wylie@hccnet.nl> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM T42p Hard Drive Issue Message-ID: <5e51d2fd0501051018197d1f37@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41DC2877.2020804@hccnet.nl> References: <5e51d2fd05010509186ce427b3@mail.gmail.com> <41DC2877.2020804@hccnet.nl>
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:48:39 +0100, D. Wylie <d.wylie@hccnet.nl> wrote: > What error. > Are you saying the error doesn't appear with fdisk from 4.x but only > with fdisk from 5.x? Correct. It states that the Geometry fdisk is assuming differs with that the BIOS issues. So I should correct the BIOS disk setting, which, apparently, are correct. > What about fdisking under 4.x, quit, start 5.x install. > As far as I know, 4.x and 5.x are seriously different and that change > you speak of is headache material. > Perhaps though, you can do a minimum 4.x istall and have a 5.x install > destroy all the data, but use the existing partions. I have an ext2 formatted slice where I would like to install 5.x but if I install 4.x and put 5.x with the new filesystem on it, I guess, the error resumes. > Have you done a search for 5.x on thinkpad? I think it its a common fbsd > victim. Yes, the rest would be *very* nice. Cheers Tom
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