Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:51:40 -0500 From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Geometry Incorrect FreeBSD-5.2.1 installation problem(s).... Message-ID: <40410D6C.1050307@forrie.com>
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I've a SOYO Dragon Platinum Edition motherboard, with SATA drives. According to FreeBSD's installation process, my geometry is incorrectly set. So, I did as it asked, rebooted into the BIOS and retrieved the figures: Cylinders: 38309 Head: 16 Pre: 0 LandZone: 38308 Sectors: 255 I selected the "G" command from sysinstall's menu to set the geometry manually: 38309/16/255 (cyl/hd/sector) and it still insists the figures are wrong. It's defaulting back to what it believes is correct: 9729 cylinders 255 heads 63 sectors These are 80gb SATA drives. The BIOS is set to run in IDE Enhanced mode (I believe). I did a test installation and it worked, except the dreaded GRUB loader (from a linux test install) keeps coming up (fdisk /mbr does NOT get rid of it)... I don't know if that's the cause of this problem (doubtful). Any clues as to what might be wrong? The BIOS is AMI/Phoenix, and is up-to-date. Thanks.
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