disk geometry confussion

[piotr.smyrak at heron.pl]

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > piotr.smyrak at heron.pl wrote:
> > >Please enlighten me. What way I should follow? 
> > 
> > First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent 
BIOS.  
> > Next, check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there 
exists an 
> > option to allow you to choose LBA mode rather than C/H/S, use 
LBA mode.
> > 
> > NeXT, try using MS-DOS fdisk to create a small DOS partition.  
The re-run 
> > the FreeBSD installation, which now ought to see the partition 
table as 
> > your system wants it.  Don't try to re-enter the partition table 
info 
> > yourself unless you know exactly what you are doing.
> > 
> > If this doesn't work, provide more details (which version of 
FreeBSD, what 
> > you computer hardware is, and what your partition table looks 
like).
> 
> I have had the same problem with FreeBSD-5.2, WD 250G. 
> Windows would install fine, but FreeBSD gave problems with 
> fdisk. I finaly reached a solution afther trying lot of 
> things, but never knew what I did.
> 

Here is what I did. I stopped trying with on-disk sysinstall, I put 
the installation cd into the drive, booted from it and used that 
one. I saw the same warning, <G> it and proceeded with immediate 
write. 

Now, I don't really know what is the difference between the 
installation cd sysinstal and the installed on disk, but it worked 
for me even though it was not the most elegant solution...

-- 
 Piotr Smyrak
 piotr.smyrak at heron.pl