Diskgeometry - sysinstall bug?

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have problems making sysinstall behave, interactive or scripted. The disk is 60GB Hitachi Travelstar, on boot the kernel FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE identifies the geometry as: 116280/16/63, but sysinstall refuses these values as insane, and tries to rewrite the disk geometry to 7296/255/63.

Solved: Diskgeometry - sysinstall bug?

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: if (d-bios_cyl 65536 || d-bios_hd 256 || d-bios_sect = 64) { Sanitize_Bios_Geom(d); } It's a bug that sysinstall refuses to accept what you type. I have found that I could create working file system with both geometries editing the above code. The