RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive

2000-06-19 Thread John Baldwin
On 19-Jun-00 Jeff Kreska wrote: I think there is something wrong with the install prog. Well, our geometry stuff isn't perfect, but part of that is do to the poor design of PC hardware. 2 things to note: The partition table is corrupt after a install. (even if I don't install

RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive

2000-06-18 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, John Baldwin wrote: ... and support LBA mode so we can boot off of larger disks, but adding this support into some parts of the bootstrap has some far reaching consequences. As a result, boot0 most likely won't have support for large drives until 5.0, or possibly 4.2

RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive

2000-06-18 Thread John Baldwin
On 18-Jun-00 Michael Reifenberger wrote: Hi, On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, John Baldwin wrote: ... and support LBA mode so we can boot off of larger disks, but adding this support into some parts of the bootstrap has some far reaching consequences. As a result, boot0 most likely won't have support

RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive

2000-06-18 Thread Jeff Kreska
stem beeps at start up and says no Operating System. Are there specs for how to create a partition past the 1024 cyl? I would like to verify that the installer is writing the correct entries to the disk. Subject: RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive On 18-Jun-00 Michael Reifenberger w

RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive

2000-06-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 15-Jun-00 Jeff Kreska wrote: I tryed to install FreeBSD 3.3,3.4, and 4.0 release on the last three gig of a 25 gig drive with no success. After an install attempt the partition table of my disk is corrupt. Now it is so screwed up that Partition Magic cant read it. Through testing I