Karl J Klug wrote: > Hmmmmm....I don't know.... Can you pass the geometry to the kernel? If > the boot messages show the correct C/H/S geometry, then the problem is > with cfdisk, I guess. There's probably a way to force fdisk to use a > particular geometry, but I've never tried it. Try looking at all the > screens when you run it -- mabye there's an "expert" mode?
I can pass the geometry to the kernel 'til the cows come home 'cause 2.0.x won't see higher than 8.4GB. The Linux boot messages _don't_ show the correct C/H/S geometry, the FreeBSD boot messages did. I could try forcing it, but I'll have to think that one through first. > Can you partition the disk with FreeBSD, then install Linux? Hrm, never thought of that. Maybe I'll give it a shot. > I've never used FreeBSD -- What do you think of it? Well, I'm not about to start a BSD vs. Linux flame war on an already noisy list, so I'll send you this part of my reply in private. Thanks! - d.
