Re: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode

2002-11-01 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Nov-2002 stephan mantler wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> Sectors more than 63 are not allowed for IDE drives at all. >> What happens when you use the LBA geometry? Does the drive >> not boot properly after being installed? > > Well, I did try LBA as well, but couldn't boot at all. boot2 di

Re: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode

2002-11-01 Thread stephan mantler
John Baldwin wrote: Sectors more than 63 are not allowed for IDE drives at all. What happens when you use the LBA geometry? Does the drive not boot properly after being installed? Well, I did try LBA as well, but couldn't boot at all. boot2 did let me look at the root directory, but any further

RE: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode

2002-10-31 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Nov-2002 stephan mantler wrote: > tonight i tried once again to install from 5.0-DP1 and the > 2002-10-25 snapshot media. it has been interesting. > > the disk i'm trying to install to is a seagate ST360021A > 60G disk with a 30G windows partition already installed. > the BIOS accepts it ei

-current install on large disk in non-LBA mode

2002-10-31 Thread stephan mantler
tonight i tried once again to install from 5.0-DP1 and the 2002-10-25 snapshot media. it has been interesting. the disk i'm trying to install to is a seagate ST360021A 60G disk with a 30G windows partition already installed. the BIOS accepts it either as a 28733/16/255 Cyl/Hd/Sec CHS, 1915/240/255