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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!cronkite.cisco.com!ronnie From: ronnie@cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to save new disk geometry? Date: 07 Jun 1995 15:19:53 GMT Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <RONNIE.95Jun7081953@madhatter.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ronnie-ss10.cisco.com Well, I believe that I have successfully loaded 2.0.5alpha onto my Connor 540Mb IDE hard-disk. My problem is that the DOS view of the disk geometry is different from reality. When I was partitioning the disk, I changed the disk geometry to be the DOS view, but that doesn't appear to get saved. Booting up with the -v option shows that BSD is trying to use the true geometry, and I believe that this is leading to the panic when it tries to mount the / partition. Is there any way to get the configured geometry to get saved? Ronnie -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ronnie B. Kon | "You couldn't deny that, even if you used both hands" ronnie@cisco.com | (408) 526-4592 | -- The Red Queen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------