Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 22:50:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system Message-ID: <199506020551.WAA02553@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9506020537.AA00796@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 1, 95 11:37:28 pm
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> > > > Geometry correct? > > > > Hmmmm... I thought one of the reasons why I bought a SCSI drive > > was to avoid worrying about stuff like geometry and cylinder > > translations and what not. At least I never had to worry about it on > > any other computer with a SCSI disk until now. The older installers > > guessed it correctly, so I didn't touch the settings on this one. > > When in doubt freebsd looks to see what DOS did, so it you have a DOS partition, it'll use those geometry figures.. by definition then at least the BIOS and FreeBSD will match.. julian
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