> > When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
> > error about my disk
> > geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
> > geometry that FreeBSD
> > wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
> > still get the error.
>
> Even when you use the exact values your BIOS thinks it is?
I
> When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
> error about my disk
> geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
> geometry that FreeBSD
> wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
> still get the error.
>
> Everything else in sysinstall is being scripted
> correctly. The only
>
> the very same happened to me with a maxtor hard drive
> and it happened to be a bad cable
>
> check jumper settings, cables, controlers etc
It wasn't a jumper problem as it happened with a number of hard disks. I
simply commented out the code in sysinstall that generated the error and
supplied th
> When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
> error about my disk
> geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
> geometry that FreeBSD
> wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
> still get the error.
>
> Everything else in sysinstall is being scripted
> correctly. The only
>
