Subject: Re: i386 ISO boots now but...
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/27/2003 11:01:56
> > BIOS disk geometry:
> > cylinders: 26302 heads: 2 sectors/track: 681 (1362 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> Those are definitely not going to work.  Looks like fdisk has defaulted
> to the real geometry - not actually useful :-)
> 
> Does your BIOS give the disk geometry on its setup screens?
> 
> Alternatively try 'sysctl machdep.diskinfo', if it displays nothing
> then pull the one from www.l8s.co.uk then netbsd/sysctl
> That one will need libc.so, so you might have to type
> 	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib sysctl machdep.diskinfo

That info is probably not very useful since it is probably difficult
to get a file onto the install system.

However setting sectors = 63 and heads = 255 (and cylinders to
(26032 * 2 * 681)/(63 * 255) = 2207, no 1023 as that is the limit),
will probably suffice.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk