Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 08:56:45 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE/eIDE issues Message-ID: <199511170856.IAA10575@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199511170748.IAA26324@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Nov 17, 95 08:48:12 am
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Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > the secret is to make sure that you give the > > geometry that the BIOS uses > > That drive has 1244/16/63. FreeBSD sysinstall partition editor > suggested 933/32/42. I entered these figures into the CMOS > labeled and installed FreeBSD (2.1.0-xxx) and still was unable > to boot - as I said, it found the boot loader but stopped > right at beginning of loading the kernel. Read the above again. Tell _FreeBSD_ what the _BIOS_ wants. It's not out of the question that your BIOS crapped out at the thought of 32 heads. > Has the disklabel to be rewritten everytime the geometry is > changed? I think so. Yes. > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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