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From: "Onur BA&#350;TRK" <basturkonur@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: While installing system an error appearing at fdisk section saying "Your disc geometry is wrong"
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>Number:         115009
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       While installing system an error appearing at fdisk section saying "Your disc geometry is wrong"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 29 13:30:01 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    Sat Aug 04 07:45:31 GMT 2007
>Last-Modified:  Sat Aug 04 07:45:31 GMT 2007
>Originator:     Onur BA&#350;TRK
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
an individual...
>Environment:
MSI K7N2 Delta nForce 2 Mainboard
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 1.91 GHz Processor
Sparkle GeForce FX 5200 128 MB Graphic Card
Kingston CL 2.5 DDR 400 RAM 3 x 256 MB
Samsung SP0812N 80 GB HDD
>Description:
I downloaded i386 6.2-RELEASE ISO images and then burned it, booted my machine with this discs to start the installation process.Main installation menu appeared.I continued my installation with custom way.I wanted to fdisk my HDD, but a message appeared saying "disc geometry is wrong" and on fdisk screen it assumed the disc geometry as 9733/255/63.I was continued installation by partitioning disk and etc.When installer was begun to copying files an error has appeared again just saying "... unable to copy ... /dev/ad*s*".
I digged internet to find a solution and i found.As a solution i booted installation disc with SAFE option by pressing 3.That time "disc geometry is wrong " messeage appeared again but when i was continued the installation i got no error and copying the files to HDD was succesful.
So installation completed and I was rebooted my computer.As i was choose standard FreeBSD Boot Manager showed up and then i choose FreeBSD by pressing F1.I booted FreeBSD with Default option by pressing 1 and after my computer alerted with sound warnings and there was a message "Wrong boot sector.Press Y to fix or any key to abort".As I mentioned above I was pressed Y to fix it but nothing was happen :(
Im not be able to show you a log because there is no OS to record log :) But I have to say there some outputs about UDMA... failure etc. while was trying to fix.
So there is no information about this thing on internet.
Sorry about my horrible english.
Cheers.
>How-To-Repeat:
I tried to install again, again and again.But it did not helped that situation.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jul 29 22:39:55 UTC 2007 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
fix up. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115009 

From: onu2 <basturkonur@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/115009: While installing system an error appearing at fdisk section saying "Your disc geometry is wrong"
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 10:03:35 +0300

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 I tried another thing and it al fixed up.
 I have changed old IDE cable with new one.It was a cable that remained to me
 from "40 GB HDD size limited old BIOS" days :) Sorry i dont know what its
 name :)
 With new cable all errors just disappeared.Still it was saying "your disc
 geometry is wrong" while fdisking but everything is allright and
 installation completed.
 And one more thing, first booting after installation (and second and later)
 may be it says like "First Boot Sector is Wrong.Press Y to fix or anykey to
 cancel".If it is, go to BIOS and disable Virus Warning.
 Thats all.
 Thanks a lot...
 
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 I tried another thing and it al fixed up.<br>I have changed old IDE cable with new one.It was a cable that remained to me from &quot;40 GB HDD size limited old BIOS&quot; days :) Sorry i dont know what its name :)<br>With new cable all errors just 
 disappeared.Still it was saying &quot;your disc geometry is wrong&quot; while fdisking but everything is allright and installation completed.<br>And one more thing, first booting after installation (and second and later) may be it says like &quot;First Boot Sector is 
 Wrong.Press Y to fix or anykey to cancel&quot;.If it is, go to BIOS and disable Virus Warning.<br>Thats all.<br>Thanks a lot...<br>
 
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 4 07:45:30 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
The submitter reports that changing his 40 pins conductor cable to a 80 
pins version resolved  the problem. Thanks for the feedback and Using 
FreeBSD. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115009 
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