On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-15] Josi M. [iso-8859-15] Fandiqo wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to install OpenBSD in three servers with
> > identical hardware and I was able to install it in two
> > of them but not in the third.
> >
> > Each server detects a diferent geometry for the SCSI
> > disks :-?
> >
> > server1 -> geometry: 817199/87/1 [71096313 Sectors]
> > server2 -> geometry: 2843852/25/1 [71096300 Sectors]
> > server3 -> geometry: 4425/255/63 [71087625 Sectors]
> >
> > in the third server the geometry causes a broken MBR
> >
> > anyone knows that can be causing this?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > dmesg, fdisk and disklabel:
> > http://195.55.55.164/tests/OpenBSD/server1.txt
> > http://195.55.55.164/tests/OpenBSD/server2.txt
> > http://195.55.55.164/tests/OpenBSD/server3.txt
> >
>
> I cannot explain the differences in geometry. Your disklabels look OK,
> it might be a BIOS thing that hits you. This smells like a problem
> Nick loves ;-)
As a start, the output of sysctl machdep.bios.diskinfo for all three
machines might be interesting.
-Otto
