On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:03:34PM +0300, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > 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. > > 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.
I think you definately want LBA. I don't think you can change it after the fact, though. I have FreeBSD installed starting half way through a 3.2gb disk, and the second disk at that (hdb/wd2). It works okay, I've never encountered this < 1024 thing with either Linux or FreeBSD. But I don't know much about BSD and haven't really had much luck/time with it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
