Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:08:39 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Message-ID: <20020327140838.GA31214@icarus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <001f01c1d508$bc1daa80$1201010a@suscom66> References: <001f01c1d508$bc1daa80$1201010a@suscom66>
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Hi William, You will get a quicker response if you use a more descriptive subject. Many people will only have time to look at "interesting" problems, and the single word "help" is a surefire way of getting ignored... Also, don't send mail with html and images in it - plain text is the way forward! On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:56:43PM -0500, Bill Olson wrote: > Hi, > > I have an 80GIG Samsung Hard Drive and to use the drive in my Compaq, I have > to use overlay software to recognize the 80 gig in there. Without the > overlay software, It only recognizes 32GIG. > > I am trying to install Freebsd (Latest downloadable off your web site) and > am running into an error when running the FDISK command. What I do is Turn > the PC on, it loads the Overlay software, and then it asks for the disk and > I put it in. When getting to the FDISK commands, thats when I get the > following error: > > chunk 'ad2s1' [-63..156360644] does not start on a track boundary The problem is that the first partition, as far as fdisk can determine, starts on the -63rd sector of the disk. Which don't exist! Is this the only disk you have in the box? I guess NOT, given the device named in the error message... If it is not the primary disk, you can safely delete all the current partitions and start again. If it is the primary disk in the machine, then it sounds like you will need to create a new BIOS partition (the first part of the first disk in Compaqs is reserved for the BIOS, usually in the region of 36MB. You can get updated BIOS images from compaq.com) Rebuild the BIOS, and try again. Incidentally, do you have any other OS installed on the box atm? Does it boot? > > Here is my info for FDISK before I removed the fat partitian and I think > this is what I am doing wrong. If I remove fat, The overlay software is on > the fat partitian. > > OFFSET SIZE END PTYPE DESC > SUBTYPE > -63 126 62 6 > unused 0 > 63 156360582 156360644 2 fat > 12 > 156360645 7308 156367952 6 unused > 0 > > I am also using the Bootstrap loader 0.8 and FreeBSD 4.5 Release 2 > > I tried to make them as even as I can so no matter what email program you > are using, I hope that helps. Any chance you can help me with this issue? If > you want to call me, My number is (207) 729-2623 x 401 > > Thank you for all your time, > William Olson > FreeBSD user Cheers, Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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