Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:12:10 +0600 (YEKST) From: =?koi8-r?B?8s/T08nIyc4g4czFy9PFyg==?= <alexxisr@mail.ru> To: Olivier Gautherot <ogautherot@freesurf.fr> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitionning Problem Message-ID: <20040824120847.T16436@compy.mydom> In-Reply-To: <412A9A5A.5000207@freesurf.fr> References: <00d501c4895c$76c16980$d2242518@iceonfire85> <412A9A5A.5000207@freesurf.fr>
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I read somewhere that the problem is in
improper mode (CHS/LBA). But when i switch
it in BIOS from auto, OS can`t even boot up.
And how to say FreeBSD proper mode i don`t know.
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Bye
Alexis Rossikhin
alexxisr@mail.ru
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Olivier Gautherot wrote:
> Hi Chiheb!
>
> Chiheb Djabri wrote:
>
> >Hello
> >
> >I am New To Freebsd. I tried to create partitions for Freebsd using FDISK but It does not detect my disk correctly. The thing is I have a 37 Gb of Hard Drive; 5 Gb are allocated for Windows 98 (FAT32), ~23,5Gb for Windows XP (NTFS) and I have the rest of Disk partitionioned with Gentoo. I thought to use this partitions for Freesbd. That's what appears on Fdisk screen:
> >
> >Disk name:ad0
> >DISK Geometry: 4865 cyls/255heads/63 sectors= 78156225 sectors (38162 MB)
> >
> >
> >Offset Size (ST) End Name PType Desc subty Flags
> >0 63 63 - 12 unused 0
> >63 10249407 10249469 ad0s1 7 fat 11
> >10249470 67890690 78140159 ad0s2 4 extended DOS, LBA 15
> >78140160 25200 78165359 - 12 unused 0
> >
> >Besides I received a message as ad0 geometry is incorrect
> >Can somebody help me please?
> >
> >
>
> I've already come across "incorrect" partitioning with the Linux fdisk.
> It seems to allocate half cyclinders for whatever reason.
> I would recommend to rerun the partitioning using the FreeBSD
> installation program. Note that, until the installation is committed,
> the disk is not modified so no data is lost.
>
> Hope it helps
> Olivier
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