Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:25:37 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Jeff Sapp <jasapp@pelennor.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large ide drive Message-ID: <20011117142537.F63067@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011117111959.B14357@pelennor.net>; from jasapp@pelennor.net on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:19:59AM -0600 References: <20011117171837.10A6037B418@hub.freebsd.org> <20011117111959.B14357@pelennor.net>
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:19:59AM -0600, Jeff Sapp wrote:
> Hello, I've run into some trouble getting FreeBSD installed on
> my Maxtor 30 gigabyte drive. Previously, I had installed FreeBSD 4.3 on
> a Maxtor 20 gig drive without doing anything special (at least to my knowledge).
> This install if off a freshly burned copy of 4.4
>
> I've read all the documentation I can find on this topic, but if I've
> overlooked something, please feel free to point me in the right direction.
>
> The harddrive in my bios, under LBA, shows up as 3736/255/63.
> I do understand that the boot slice cannot be larger than 1024
> Cylinders.
Sure it can. The boot slice cannot _start_ beyond 1024 cylinders.
> When fdisk runs during the FreeBSD install, I choose NOT to dangerously
> dedicated the entire drive to FreeBSD, and I am given the chance to edit
> the drive geometry. After changing the drive to 3736/255/63, at the top,
> it says the drive is 29000 something megabytes. I can create a 2 gigabyte
> slice, but I am not able to create a second slice to use the rest of the
> drive.
Why not? What error are you getting?
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