I found out that my samsung 1604N hard disk can be partitioned
without any problem (it is now the primary master with a dvd drive as
slave).
.
The problem lies with disklabel. If I use 'A' option in the
sysinstall program's label section,.
it expects to find in /dev ad0s1a, ad0s2a etc.. but these don't show
up in /dev and the labelling procedure fails. Can someone tell me how
to fix this or if this is a bug in this release of freebsd?
thanks
-kamal
On 06-Oct-05, at 9:57 PM, Gayn Winters wrote:
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Subject: problems with disk geometry
hello,
Im trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 beta5 on a samsung SP1604N hard
disk of about 160 GB.
The installer complains that it has a problem with the disk
geometry.
The exact message is given below:-
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A geometry of 310101/16/63 is incorrect for ad1. Using a more likely
geometry. If this geometry is incorrect.. pl. consult the
hardware guide
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fdisk goes through the process of creating the reqd slices
and when I
try to commit the new partition table -it says it cannot write to /
dev/ad1.
Can someone tell me how to get past this problem?
thanks
-kamal
I doubt it is your disk geometry. You will probably need to provide a
little more information. I assume you've got another OS on /dev/
ad0 and
that you are letting sysinstall put 6.0 onto /dev/ad1 as a
(dangerously)
dedicated drive? What does the BIOS report? How old are the machine
and its BIOS? What does fdisk say when run either standalone or from
the first OS?
-gayn
Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant
http://www.kamalprasad.com/
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