On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:46:15PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > So what's the word on AHCI and bios drive geometry? I'm having a real > > pain of a time trying to get some 750gb sata drives running on my > > FreeBSD7 box in AHCI mode. It doesn't seem to matter what disk > > geometry I suggest to sysinstall, something complains of an invalid > > disk upon booting it. > > > > > > > > Actually, in AHCI mode the bios screen doesn't report any information > > on drive geometry, so all bets appear to be off in giving sysinstall > > the correct figures. > > I would think anything this modern would totally ignore CHS and hence > any warnings about bogus geometry are in themselves totally bogus. > > ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings.
Which begs the question -- why are we still spitting that warning out during the fdisk portion of sysinstall? Even to this day, I get mails from "junior" peers of mine asking what it's about, whether it's important, and even a few refusing to install/try the OS because of said message. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
