New ISO available / ...

Michel Talon talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr
Sun May 2 01:39:01 PDT 2004


Garance A Drosihn wrote:

It might be that I messed up something there (or maybe GRUB did,
when it was installed).  Perhaps the problem is that the BIOS is
using a different calculation than fdisk on the system is using,
and thus anything that usees the BIOS calls will end up reading
from the wrong part of the disk for everything but the first slice.
This is certainly a possibility.
FreeBSD has always seen problems with disk geometry. It rarely sees
the same geometry as Linux or (Net|Open)BSD, causing problems on
multiboot machines. There appeared recently a rather nice review of 
FreeBSD on the Linux centric site kerneltrap.org, and they falled
immediately on this problem, that they call the "geometry bug".






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