Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

2004-03-31 Thread Jorge Mario G.
 When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
 error about my disk
 geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
 geometry that FreeBSD
 wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
 still get the error.
 
 Everything else in sysinstall is being scripted
 correctly. The only
 problems I am having are disk related. Can anyone
 shed any light on this
 subject?
 
 Thanks,
 -Don
 
Hi there
the very same happened to me with a maxtor hard drive
and it happened to be a bad cable

check jumper settings, cables, controlers etc


jorge

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Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

2004-03-31 Thread Don
 the very same happened to me with a maxtor hard drive
 and it happened to be a bad cable

 check jumper settings, cables, controlers etc
It wasn't a jumper problem as it happened with a number of hard disks. I
simply commented out the code in sysinstall that generated the error and
supplied the geometry through the geometry directive in install.cfg.

I was also calling diskPartitionEditor and diskPartitionWrite.

If I just called diskPartitionEditor and left the rest for install commit
most of the other problems I was having went away.

-Don
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Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

2004-03-31 Thread Jorn Argelo

 When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
 error about my disk
 geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
 geometry that FreeBSD
 wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
 still get the error.

 Everything else in sysinstall is being scripted
 correctly. The only
 problems I am having are disk related. Can anyone
 shed any light on this
 subject?

 Thanks,
 -Don

Even when you use the exact values your BIOS thinks it is?

Jorn

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Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

2004-03-31 Thread Don
  When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
  error about my disk
  geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
  geometry that FreeBSD
  wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
  still get the error.

 Even when you use the exact values your BIOS thinks it is?
I am pretty sure it was still happening even then. Unfortunately, I had
several other minor problems and it was easy enough to hack sysinstall so
I did not bother to really check. If I have some time I will go back and
look into it again.

-Don
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