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The only problem is that the geometry was reported as bad by
sysinstall, and implied I needed to change it.
When you access a drive in LBA mode, the BIOS reports a "fake" geometry. This
is the warning you see, but you probably do not need to change anything, just
Subhro wrote:
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:03:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The only problem is that the geometry was reported as bad by
sysinstall, and implied I needed to change it.
Yet the partition step appears to have changed it already, or is
assuming it will be changed.
I don't understand what th
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:03:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The only problem is that the geometry was reported as bad by
> sysinstall, and implied I needed to change it.
> Yet the partition step appears to have changed it already, or is
> assuming it will be changed.
> I don't understand what the sit
Subhro wrote:
When I boot off a CD (image created from downloaded iso image),
start the install, and go to allocate the freebsd slice, it reports
155061/16/63 ad4
and says the geometry is invalid
What does the sticker on top of the drive say about its geometry. I
would like to explicitly instruct
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:48:34 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> When I boot off a CD (image created from downloaded iso image),
> start the install, and go to allocate the freebsd slice, it reports
> 155061/16/63 ad4
> and says the geometry is invalid
>
What does the sticker on top of the drive say
Hi all,
Trying to install 5.3b7 on the second slice of a Seagate ST380013AS
SATA 80G drive.
Drive was originally partitioned from NT to have an 8G NTFS slice
at the front, with the rest left open for FBSD.
When I boot off a CD (image created from downloaded iso image),
start the install, and go to
