Re: problems with disk geometry

2005-10-08 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamal R. Prasad Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:56 AM To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: problems with disk geometry hello, Im trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 beta5 on a samsung SP1604N hard disk of about 160 GB. The installer complains that it has a p

Re: problems with disk geometry

2005-10-06 Thread Kamal R . Prasad
[snip] I doubt it is your disk geometry. You will probably need to provide a little more information. I assume you've got another OS on /dev/ ad0 and that you are letting sysinstall put 6.0 onto /dev/ad1 as a (dangerously) dedicated drive? What does the BIOS report? How old are the ma

RE: problems with disk geometry

2005-10-06 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamal > R. Prasad > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:56 AM > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: problems with disk geometry > > > hello, > > Im tryi

problems with disk geometry

2005-10-06 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
hello, Im trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 beta5 on a samsung SP1604N hard disk of about 160 GB. The installer complains that it has a problem with the disk geometry. The exact message is given below:- -- A geometry of 310101/16/63 is incorrect for ad1.