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From: garthb@wam.umd.edu (Garth H. Brantley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 disk geometry problem...Help!
Date: 17 Aug 1994 00:20:38 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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I am tryin to install FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 for the first time. I have
a P66 with 8mb and 810mb IDE drive with a PCI contoller. My hard drive
has 1572 cyln, 16 heads, 63 secotrs/track but the bios translates this to
786 cyln, 32 heads, 63 secotrs. This is neccesary for DOS to support
partitions that go past cyln 1024. When I set FreeBSD to 1572, 16, 63
the computer hangs at boot saying "Missing Operating System". I found
this in the FAQ and it suggested that I use the same disk geometry that
DOS was using so I reinstalled FreeBSD and set it to 786, 32, 63. This
seems to work at first, but the error message "32 heads not supported,
resetting to 16 heads" keeps apearing and the system wont work.
If Anybody else out there has set up FreeBSD with a >1024 cyln IDE
hard drive I would appreciate it if you could help me. Thank You.
-Garth