Re: IBM T42p Hard Drive Issue
Thomas Beer <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:48:39 +0100, D. Wylie <[email protected]> wrote: > What error. > Are you saying the error doesn't appear with fdisk from 4.x but only > with fdisk from 5.x? Correct. It states that the Geometry fdisk is assuming differs with that the BIOS issues. So I should correct the BIOS disk setting, which, apparently, are correct. > What about fdisking under 4.x, quit, start 5.x install. > As far as I know, 4.x and 5.x are seriously different and that change > you speak of is headache material. > Perhaps though, you can do a minimum 4.x istall and have a 5.x install > destroy all the data, but use the existing partions. I have an ext2 formatted slice where I would like to install 5.x but if I install 4.x and put 5.x with the new filesystem on it, I guess, the error resumes. > Have you done a search for 5.x on thinkpad? I think it its a common fbsd > victim. Yes, the rest would be *very* nice. Cheers Tom _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"