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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:13:15 +0530
From:      "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org>
To:        Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd has problems with bios
Message-ID:  <A4EB532F-E504-49CB-8F63-CA03000CB9BF@acm.org>
In-Reply-To: <57416b300510122305q45ea25a5i9da5d8fe56e6e0aa@mail.gmail.com>
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I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may  
be unstable.
I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve  
the problem.
Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with freebsd.

regards
-kamal

On 13-Oct-05, at 11:35 AM, Peter Clutton wrote:

>> The bios has 4 modes auto, large, lba, chs in which to access the
>> hard disk. I ttried all 4 modes and it  doesn't solve the problem.
>>
>
> No, i didn't say to try different bios modes. I said (which fdisk also
> says) that you should:
> 1. Go into the bios, see what it reports as the CHS
> 2. Reboot  (i thought this part was a given to get back to Fdisk)
> 3. When you get up to the fdisk section, enter the CHS value given to
> you by the bios
>     using the g key, and writing it manually.
>

Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant
http://www.kamalprasad.com/
kamalp@acm.org






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