Michael Clark wrote:
I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as
master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me an error about
CD/DVD drive not found!. It's worth noting that no other OS I've run on
this same PC ever had any trouble finding the CD-ROM drive
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Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:57:18 +0100
Michael Clark wrote:
I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as
master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me an error about
CD/DVD
Keith Kelly wrote:
On Jan 22, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Keith Kelly wrote:
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed
with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a
non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system
error
Keith Kelly wrote:
OK, but if the auto mode uses the wrong C/H/S translation, this default
may be the source of your problem. What happens when you switch from
using auto to explicitly using LBA?
I don't know. I've never had to change away from Auto to get any other OS
to install or boot from
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800
Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote:
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given more
technical details.
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install proceed
with fdisk's geometry value assumptions,
I don't know. I've never had to change away from Auto to
get any other OS
to install or boot from any of my hard drives, though, so I
really doubt
that is the problem. I'm quite confident the problem must
lie with FreeBSD
itself, in the form of a bug or a lack of hardware
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
don't complain. Your not committing...
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From: Keith Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:49 PM
To: Derrick Ryalls
Cc: freebsd-bugs; 'freebsd-questions ORG'
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from
BIOS
My
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
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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Please see this page:
http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1044789670
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800
Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given
more technical details.
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I
On Jan 22, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Keith Kelly wrote:
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed
with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a
non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system
error at
boot.
Sufficiently old
or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800
Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given
more technical details.
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed
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
, January 22, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
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
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Keith Kelly wrote:
The motherboard is not old. It is an MSI KT4 Ultra motherboard, if I
remember the model number correctly off the top of my head, for the
Athlon
XP architecture. The BIOS doesn't even explicitly list what mode
(LBA, CHS,
extended CHS) it is using
: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800
Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given
more technical details.
I
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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Yes, I tried it both ways (installing BootMgr, and installing a standard
MBR).
I just thought of one more awful thing which has
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
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