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John wrote:
> I've tried the "modern BIOS" geometry and the "255 head" geometry.
> I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5
> Gb.  I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry
> is, but it doesn't seem to want to tell me.  At least, I can't find
> it in the BIOS menu anywhere.  When I boot from the CD-ROM with
> the 255 head geometry, though, it complains about the disk geometry,
> saying 16h,63s != 255h,63s or something like that - it flies by
> pretty fast (is there a way to go back and see that from the CD-ROM
> "boot only" boot?).
> 
> I'm using the "Standard" boot manager, and the entire disk is devoted
> to FreeBSD.
> 
> System
> BIOS version  PT84510A.86A.2004.P05
> Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4
> Processor speed: 2.20Ghz
> 
> Memory: 512Mb
> 
> Disk: Primary IDE Master ST380021A (Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80Gb)
> Primary IDE Slave: IOMega ZIP 250
> Secondary IDE Master: Sony CD-RW CRX19 (what I boot from to install)
> Secondary IDE Slave: DVD-ROM DDU1621
> 
> Boot sequence:
> 1) ATAPI CD-ROM
> 2) Hard Drive
> 3) "Removable Dev."
> 
> "Modern BIOS" geometry: 155061/16/63 for ad0
> "calculated" geometry: 9729/255/63 for ad0
> 
> ad0s1 start=63, size=2875572
> ad0s2 start=2875635, size=10217340
> ad0s3 start=13092975, size=143203410
> unus  start=156296384, size=5103
> 
> ad0s1a / 384Mb
> ad0s1d /usr 1Gb
> ad0s2b SWAP 1Gb
> ad0s2d /tmp 384Mb
> ad0s2e /var 512Mb
> ad0s2f /var/mail 2Gb
> ad0s2g /usr/ports 1Gb
> ad0s3d /home/mysql 4Gb
> ad0s3e /home 50Gb
> ad0s3f /usr/src 3Gb
> ad0s3g /usr/obj 3Gb
> ad0s3h /extra 8483Mb
> 
> Suggestions, please?  I'm making zero headway right now. :(

What version of FreeBSD are you running????