Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

2004-03-31 Thread Jorge Mario G.
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 problems

Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

2004-03-31 Thread Don
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 the

Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

2004-03-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
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 problems

Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

2004-03-31 Thread Don
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 am pretty