error in disk geometry

[Roman Kurakin]

melvin herrera wrote:

>   Hello, i need install freeBsd 5.2 in my hard disk. But fdisk program
>   return a error "disk geometry invalid".
>
>   The geometry of my disk  is 19769 cyls, 16 heads, 255 sectors.
>
>   I introduce this values but fdisk does not allow its entrance?
>  
>
sysinstall's fdisk?

This is probably libdisk problem (Sanitize_Bios_Geom (); function), but 
I'am not sure.

I can give you some patches that allow to set any geom with sysinstall's 
fdisk,
but to install system you'll have to install it on other small disk, 
patch sysinstall
and than install system using patched sysinstall. (after you should 
update sysinstall
on target system as well.

If this suits you and you want to risk, let me know.

Any way I suggest to use 5.2.1, I am sure you'll get the same problem, but
it has some fixes of other problems in 5.2.

rik

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