Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 16:29:42 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: disk cylinder count wrong Message-ID: <382054E6.67A72B4D@nisser.com>
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I've put together a machine from some parts lying around. Not the most recent ones. Most notably a 75 MHz Pentium (clocked at 90) on an Intel Plato MB. The disk is a somewhat more recent Quantum EL 5.1 Fireball. This disk has several layouts: cyl's hds sec mode 10602 15 63 NORMAL 623 255 63 LBA 662 240 63 LARGE I installed 3.3 using FTP with the BIOS set to LARGE addressing mode. Install went smooth. Although I did notice that fdisk reported the disk as having NORMAL mode. After install was done I proceeded with the reboot. Up to the "Default: F1" prompt all went fine. Thereafter all that happenned was the appearance of a "-" (or "_") below the D from Default and that was that. So, how to proceed. I assume that it is somehow getting the wrong disk parameters although I would've thought at this point all goes through the BIOS. What I'ld do just as lief is booting through diskettes, telling it which disk to use and be done with it. However that is not as simple as it ought to be. I manage to boot and access the fixit disk, but not more than that. The root still points to some diskette and when you exit it wants to reboot. During the boot process I did manage to list some disk specifics: disk1s1a: FFS 40 MB (63 - 81983) disk1s1b: FFS 132 MB (81983 - 354143) disk1s1e: swap 20 MB (354143 - 395103) disk1s1f: FFS 4694 MB (395103 - 10009440) Finally, when booting under Linux (floppies) that does detect the correct BIOS parameters. If anyone has some pointers, please be so kind. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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