Subject: Re: Big IDE disks -- install problems
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/15/1998 17:05:37
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> 
> It appears that no matter how I try I can't make the darn thing
> boot from its IDE disk.  Here are the various things I have
> tried, in no particular order:
> 
>  o Using the "default" geometry (2055c/255h/63s), newfs complains
>    loudly that with that large a cylinder group, I would have to
>    jack up the block size from 8K to 32K and the fragment size
>    from 1K to 4K.  Even though the disk is large I'm not
>    particularly keen on wasting that much disk space.

In your disklabel, did you start at offset 0 or 63?