From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 19:23:41 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 988E416A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:23:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp13.wxs.nl (smtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.6.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A2543D48 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:23:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp13.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I5800H2AB7FNH@smtp13.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i97JNcqJ014227; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i97JNc1o014226; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <41658B5B.4010908@mac.com> To: Chuck Swiger Message-id: <20041007192337.GA12508@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <20041007011740.M26670@heron.pl> <41658B5B.4010908@mac.com> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl 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: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:23:41 -0000 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. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/