Subject: Success of NetBSD on weird IDE disks (was Re: Installation problems)
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Eric S. Hvozda <hvozda@netcom.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/26/1995 15:35:29
Richard, I replied to you, but it appears the MX records for your
domain all point at non-existant hosts...
On Thu, 26 Oct 95 15:25:47 GMT richard.ellis@kpmg.co.uk wrote:
> The installation loops continuosly displaying this error. The disk
> geometry (according to the bios) is 528 cyls 64 heads 63 sectors. On
> bootup netbsd sees it as 2112/16/63 I have tried using both geometries
> for the installation but get the same result.
While I have a had a a problem installing on a >1Gb disk recently myself
I'm starting to see a pattern here. All of the disks have a
natural geo of X CYL 16 HD 63 SPT and BIOS geo of Y CYL 64 HD 63 SPT.
Has anyone out there gotten NetBSD to install on such a disk? There
seems to be quite a few of us with failures on this type of IDE disk...