drive geometry error

[Jef Dodson]

I first tried leaving the values alone and it produced the error.  I then tried changing the
values to the values that my BIOS reported but that gave the same error.  Incidentally, the values
that the installer is setting are the same values that I see if I run fdisk and print the
partition table for and identical (but different) drive that has a Linux installation.

Jef

--- Nikolas Britton <freebsd at nbritton.org> wrote:

> Jef Dodson wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive.  I get a message saying that the
> drive
> >geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry.  When I try to set
> the
> >geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error message and the values
> get
> >set back to the "more likely" values.  Everything seems to go fine until I try to commit the
> >installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written to.
> >
> I'm not sure whether you changed the values and then installed or left 
> them alone and then installed....
> 
> I've have this happen a few times before. I just ignored the message and 
> continued on with the install as normal, I have had no problems with 
> those computers.
> 
> >  The drive currently
> >has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the FreeBSD
> installation,
> >i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS.  Also, the MB is an Asus with an AMD Athlon
> >3200+ processor, if that matters.  I've seen lots of posts in various places about problems
> >similar to this, but no real solutions.  I also tried a to install a small DOS partition first
> as
> >I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect.  Thanks.
> >
> >Jef
> >
> >
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