Disk geometry in FreeBSD-5.2 on a Dell Inspiron 5150

[Vincent Bruijnes [NLISP Internet]]

Dear readers,

Yesterday I did a new fresh install on my Inspiron 5150 with a Fujitsu MHT
2060AT PL harddrive. In previous versions (4.X BRANCH) I never encountered
problems like these. During install it said that 116820/16/63 was an invalid
drive geometry. But this is the value the installation auto-detects. When I
just ignore the message and go install it will hang during installation of
the base. This fujitsu harddisk is a normal ATA IDE harddisk, running on
ata1-master UDMA100. Anyone already got experience with these kind of
troubles, and especially the ones who got it fixed? Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Oh besides, I'm not able to install 4.9 because of a
lack of the Broadcom 440x network driver. It was first released in the 5.2
Series.

Thanks in advance.

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Vincent Bruijnes
 
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