http://phaq.phunsites.net/2007/05/25/freebsds-loader-fails-with-wrong-harddisk-geometry-in-bios/ my daily IT madness Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://phaq.phunsites.net/2007/05/25/freebsds-loader-fails-with-wrong-harddisk-geometry-in-bios/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Frederic Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:35:06 +0000 http://phaq.phunsites.net/2007/05/25/freebsds-loader-fails-with-wrong-harddisk-geometry-in-bios/#comment-137 Thanks for the tip as well. I too was getting "can't load kernel" on my primary ide harddrive. Boot from cd worked fine. This being the only page on the web mentioning freenas and the above error message, I thought I'd add a comment. Going into the Bios, going to the settings for the primary drive, there should be an access mode setting that has a bunch of options but usually defaults to auto. Having never played with this setting before I was surprised this was neccessary since LBA seems to be expected for modern drives, but whatever the cause switching to LBA fixed the problem. Thanks for the tip as well. I too was getting “can’t load kernel” on my primary ide harddrive. Boot from cd worked fine. This being the only page on the web mentioning freenas and the above error message, I thought I’d add a comment. Going into the Bios, going to the settings for the primary drive, there should be an access mode setting that has a bunch of options but usually defaults to auto. Having never played with this setting before I was surprised this was neccessary since LBA seems to be expected for modern drives, but whatever the cause switching to LBA fixed the problem.

]]> http://phaq.phunsites.net/2007/05/25/freebsds-loader-fails-with-wrong-harddisk-geometry-in-bios/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Dave Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:05:17 +0000 http://phaq.phunsites.net/2007/05/25/freebsds-loader-fails-with-wrong-harddisk-geometry-in-bios/#comment-136 Thanks for the tip. I was getting the same "can't load kernal" & "bad disklabel" messages on the device and I changed the bios access mode from "auto" to "lba" and the freenas booted perfectly. Thanks again, you saved me countless hours of frustration. Thanks for the tip. I was getting the same “can’t load kernal” & “bad disklabel” messages on the device and I changed the bios access mode from “auto” to “lba” and the freenas booted perfectly. Thanks again, you saved me countless hours of frustration.

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