Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:16:19 +0200 From: Roman Oistacher <rcher@inter.net.il> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk geometry salad... Message-ID: <40BD9AE3.9050704@inter.net.il> In-Reply-To: <20040602060214.07c72867.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> References: <200406011423.i51ENcUG001683@mist.nodomain> <20040602060214.07c72867.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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Robert Storey wrote: > > You've encountered a well-known bug in the installer. I've experienced > it too and so have many others. > > During the install, when you're in the fdisk partition editor, just > hitting "g" is usually all you have to do to correct the bug. If you've > already installed, I'm not sure what you can do to correct the bug other > than go back and reinstall, this time hitting "g". There might be > another way to change disk geometry without doing that, but I don't know > how (anybody reading this know?). > After complaining about an incorrect geometry, sysinstall (or Fdisk) automatically enters the values it finds 'more appropriate' as the geometry. Hitting 'g' simply opens a dialog where I'm supposed to enter the geometry manually.
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