I wrote the message to which you replied, not Michael Clark.
See my comments in-line.
From: Hendrik Hasenbein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: 'Keith Kelly' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Derrick Ryalls
[EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-bugs [EMAIL PROTECTED],
'freebsd-questions ORG
See my comments in-line.
From: Hendrik Hasenbein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:43:17 +0100
Keith Kelly wrote:
I've found a bug in FDisk which
My thought here is to double check that the drive is in the master
position on the ribbon.
Yeah, you would _think_ that would be the way to configure things. But when
I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as
master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me
I've found a bug in FDisk which is responsible for all the problems I've had
trying to get FreeBSD installed. I also found a work-around, and I'm happy
to report I'm typing this message from Konquerer inside FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
right now.
Basically, the problem is that FreeBSD's FDisk and the
Please see this page:
http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1044789670/index_html
This is exactly the problem I am having now whenever I try to install either
FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1. Clearly, a lot of other users out there are having this
problem too. FDisk absolutely refuses to
. And of course many users are running
into this issue where the drive geometries reported and used by their BIOS
are simply rejected by fdisk as invalid whenever they try to enter them
into fdisk, which makes no sense to me.
- Original Message -
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith
Yes, I tried it both ways (installing BootMgr, and installing a standard
MBR).
- Original Message -
From: Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect
See comments in-line.
- Original Message -
From: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
On Jan 22
was
still able to boot off a DOS floppy, format the hard drive as a system
device and put a minimal DOS install on it, and boot fine off the hard drive
into DOS.
- Original Message -
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Chris Pressey [EMAIL
Inline.
- Original Message -
From: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions ORG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6
.
Jumpering your IDE drives to CS uses the predefined meanings of
the nipples. I have always jumpered my IDE devices as master or
slave and plug them into the correct ribbon nipple. Check it out,
and post your results.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keith Kelly
Sent: Tuesday
From the FreeBSD FAQ
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#NO-INSTALL-CDROMhttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#NO-INSTALL-CDROM):
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3.16. I booted from my ATAPI CDROM, but the install program says no CDROM is found.
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