1021 cylinders(?), 8.4GB, and FreeBSD
I've been trying to add a freebsd to a spare partition, but I'm running into a
bit of oddness.
I have an 8.4gb maxtor. I have an initial partition of something like 100Mb
for /boot, so that it could be boot from. After this partition, I am
attempting to put a freebsd. Which is where it gets odd.
During starup I get a report of 16k or so cylinders. But when I head into the
bios, or fdisk under either bsd or debian, I get a report of 1021 cylinders,
255 heads, 63 sectors. (hmm, that's debian; i think bsd said 999 sectors).
The bios offers a couple of options for the geometry of the disk. LSB,
normal, and something else. It also notes that some OS's such as SCO require
normal; would this be the case for FreeBSD as well?
I don't recall changing to the 1021 format, and the sizing of the /boot as
well as another long-gone partition was set so that they'd both end up
(entirely) within the first 1023.
Can I change my disk geometry now? Or will this kill everything? Or is there
another way to boot FreeBSD? as near as I can tell, even with the floppy, it
wants it's root partition in the first 1023, even when using the boot
diskette; and in spite of my alleged geometry, it gives a report of "C> 1023
exceeded" or some such.
hmm, I suppose I could put / onto the scsi zip . . .
rick
Or does someone know another way
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