On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 03:48:39PM -0400, Rick Kelly wrote:
> David Brownlee said:
> 
> The machine will only have NetBSD.
> 
> real geom: 3956 cyl 19 hds 111 sec
> BIOS geom: 1024 cyl 19 hds 111 sec
> 
> The BIOS set shows "virus warning" turned off.
> 
> The offset of the 'a' partition is 0 and the size is 60 megs.
> 
> Sysinst will only let me enter 1024 cyl 19 hds 63 sec as the
> useable geometry, 

This is the case where sysinst gets the BIOS geometry wrong; it happens
with SCSI controllers. It does its best given the circumstances, but..
it's not perfect. It's nearly impossibly to get right at the moment,
because the BIOS information can be queried, but you can not be 100%
sure that you make the right BIOS drive # <-> NetBSD drive # match.

Try to boot a dos floppy, run pfdisk or any other utility that will
print out the BIOS geometry, and write it down. Run the install
again, when asked if the geometry is correct choose "no" and
specify the one you wrote down.

The geometry should be one of the typical ones that an Adaptec BIOS sets
for you.. I think it's probably 519 cyl, 255 hds, 63 secs in this case.

- Frank

- Frank