From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 06:07:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA14047 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 06:07:41 -0700 Received: from GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU (GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.91]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA14034 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 06:07:39 -0700 Received: from LOCALHOST by GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03785; 15 Jun 95 9:07 EDT To: Joerg Weber cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk geometry 2GB disks In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:30:25 +0200. <9506150630.AA10681@smiley.interface-business.de> Reply-To: moto@CS.cmu.edu From: moto@CS.cmu.edu Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:06:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3782.803221614@GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU> Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, >>>>> "Joerg" == Joerg Weber writes: Joerg> during the installation of FreeBSD 2.0.5 we have problems with Joerg> booting from a 2 GB Seagate ST32430N Fast-SCSI-2 disk. The Joerg> SCSI controller is a Adaptec 2940. Joerg> After creating a bootable partition with a 200 MB root file Joerg> system and installation of the core system the boot manager has Joerg> no access to the partition. Joerg> All modification of the logical disk geometry have the same Joerg> result. Joerg> Is there some information abort this problem and is solution? Joerg> The physical geometry of the disk is: Joerg> cylinders: 3992 heads: 9 sectorsper track: 119 unformatted Joerg> capacity: 2590 MB formatted capacity: 2140 MB -- If you have a DOS, create a small DOS partition on that SCSI drive and next install FreeBSD. FreeBSD's installer will determine the correct geometory. Onece the geometory is recognized properly, everything will be fine. You can delete the DOS partition and allocate an entire disk for FreeBSD if you don't need it. BTW, why did this happen in 2.0.5? It was OK at least in 950412-SNAP, wasn't it? ============================================================================== Motonori Shindou Carnegie Mellon University SCS Graduate Student e-mail: moto@cs.cmu.edu, NiftyServe: GEG04056 WWW: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/moto/WWW/moto-home.html TEL: 412-362-9636 FAX: 412-362-9634 ==============================================================================