I've been trying to add a freebsd to a spare partition, but I'm running into a bit of oddness.
I have an 8.4gb maxtor. I have an initial partition of something like 100Mb for /boot, so that it could be boot from. After this partition, I am attempting to put a freebsd. Which is where it gets odd. During starup I get a report of 16k or so cylinders. But when I head into the bios, or fdisk under either bsd or debian, I get a report of 1021 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors. (hmm, that's debian; i think bsd said 999 sectors). The bios offers a couple of options for the geometry of the disk. LSB, normal, and something else. It also notes that some OS's such as SCO require normal; would this be the case for FreeBSD as well? I don't recall changing to the 1021 format, and the sizing of the /boot as well as another long-gone partition was set so that they'd both end up (entirely) within the first 1023. Can I change my disk geometry now? Or will this kill everything? Or is there another way to boot FreeBSD? as near as I can tell, even with the floppy, it wants it's root partition in the first 1023, even when using the boot diskette; and in spite of my alleged geometry, it gives a report of "C> 1023 exceeded" or some such. hmm, I suppose I could put / onto the scsi zip . . . rick Or does someone know another way -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
