Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:08:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD w/ 7 GIG Maxtor IDE HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022140612.1428C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971021210103.259D-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > Today I attempted to install FreeBSD on a Maxtor 7 GIG EIDE Hard > Drive but was unsuccessful. With the drive plugged in, FreeBSD probes the > drive as 14475 cylinders, 8207 Heads, and 8255 Sectors per track while the > drive and the BIOS has it as 14475 cylinders, 15 Heads, and 63 sectors per > track. With the drive plugged in, the FreeBSD boot disk never made it to > the sysinstall menu but just hung there until I booted without the drive > attached. Hung where, exactly? Some systems have adverse effects to the terminal init stuff in the dialog library and will jam there. My laptop happens to be one of them. Try the new 2.2.5 install floppy, and don't worry too much about the geometry as of yet. If you are dedicating the whole disk to FreeBSD, it may help to put a DOS partition on the disk, then delete it and install FreeBSD over it. This helps sysinstall get the geometry right. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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