Re: IBM T42p Hard Drive Issue

Frank Altpeter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:18:35 +0100, Thomas Beer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
If your BIOS settings for the recovery system is correct (i.e. "hide
content from OS") then you can safely ignore that error message and
install 5.3.
Did that on my T40 and works fine.

HTH,

Frank Altpeter

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