From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 22:25:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6735216A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:25:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sys.heron.com.pl (sys.heron.com.pl [195.117.24.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042A543D2D for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:25:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from piotr.smyrak@heron.pl) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=poczta.heron.pl) by sys.heron.com.pl with esmtp (Exim 4.23) id 1CK2QP-0005Qw-T9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:25:49 +0200 From: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:25:49 +0200 Message-Id: <20041019222019.M22264@heron.pl> In-Reply-To: <20041007192337.GA12508@alex.lan> References: <20041007011740.M26670@heron.pl> <41658B5B.4010908@mac.com> <20041007192337.GA12508@alex.lan> X-Mailer: WebMail at HERON 2.32 20040813 X-OriginatingIP: 83.24.104.85 (smyru) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Subject: Re: disk geometry confussion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:25:39 -0000 On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > piotr.smyrak@heron.pl wrote: > > >Please enlighten me. What way I should follow? > > > > First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS. > > Next, check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there exists an > > option to allow you to choose LBA mode rather than C/H/S, use LBA mode. > > > > NeXT, try using MS-DOS fdisk to create a small DOS partition. The re-run > > the FreeBSD installation, which now ought to see the partition table as > > your system wants it. Don't try to re-enter the partition table info > > yourself unless you know exactly what you are doing. > > > > If this doesn't work, provide more details (which version of FreeBSD, what > > you computer hardware is, and what your partition table looks like). > > I have had the same problem with FreeBSD-5.2, WD 250G. > Windows would install fine, but FreeBSD gave problems with > fdisk. I finaly reached a solution afther trying lot of > things, but never knew what I did. > Here is what I did. I stopped trying with on-disk sysinstall, I put the installation cd into the drive, booted from it and used that one. I saw the same warning, it and proceeded with immediate write. Now, I don't really know what is the difference between the installation cd sysinstal and the installed on disk, but it worked for me even though it was not the most elegant solution... -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl