Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:38:22 +0800 From: Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation Message-ID: <4B58127E.9000106@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20100121014759.B3377@starfire.mn.org> References: <20100121014759.B3377@starfire.mn.org>
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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????
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