From: Administrator <stash@cns.spb.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: LBA and loader -> problem Message-ID: <41A4E43D1765D3118C41000001013BDD044E21@SERVER>
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Hi! I have faced following problem: I've installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 on WD drive with LBA mode on. (BSD Partition is primary ~600M and the very first on drive) Everything works fine, except that on the very first boot stage (BMX loader) the system works VERY SLOW (it takes about several minutes to get to the kernel loading stage), and the drive makes some snaping sounds like if the drive head hits somethig. But after the kernel starts loading - everythig works fine. After trying different choises of disk geometry in BIOS setup (actually 3 - LBA, NORMAL and LARGE) I found out that the problem vanishes when setting LARGE mode. I can't use this mode permanently , cause I have several OSes more on this drive and they won't boot in any mode except LBA. In the logs I see that the FreeBSD system thinks that the drive C/H/S "signature" is NORMAL, no matter what i set up in BIOS. Can anyone give me some direction to work in? Thanx in advance PS: sorry for my bad english. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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