Bug 15869

Summary: 3.4-STABLE-20000103 install fails to disklabel
Product: Base System Reporter: timlee <timlee>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3.4-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description timlee 2000-01-03 23:30:00 UTC 
13.6GB ATA hard disk is divided into fdisk partitions of
(approximately) 4GB, 2GB, and 6GB.  Trying to install FreeBSD on
the 6GB partition.  When in the disklabel phase, trying to make a
200MB / filesystem at the beginning of the 6GB partition fails
(says that it is too large).  Auto defaults for the disklabel
phase also fails.  (The 4GB and 2GB partitions have Linux and
NetBSD on them.)
Comment 1 andrew 2000-04-07 20:13:13 UTC 
I had problems with a much smaller HD.

I managed to cure it by setting boot0conf to use
'packet' mode - ie not CHS disk parameters.

I think this should be the default for larger
(over 540MB) HDs.

I cannot guarantee its your problem though

regards

Andrew
Comment 2 Søren Schmidt freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-05-30 10:19:41 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This is fixed in 4.3