From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 04:35:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E4016A501 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 04:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A21A43D2D for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 04:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmBOD-0001lJ-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:35:21 +0100 Received: from 196.30.152.3 ([196.30.152.3]) by news.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu Jan 29 12:35:21 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmBOB-0001lB-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:35:19 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmBOB-0002Kf-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:35:19 +0100 From: rk47 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:37:39 +0200 Organization: nanoteq Lines: 41 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 196.30.152.3 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Sender: news Subject: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:35:26 -0000 Hi FreeBSD'ers I have a problem with booting from FreeBSD 4.8/4.9 and 5.2, they all gave the same error. I have an 80Gig Seagate HD with a Pentium 4, Epox motherboard and Phoenix version 2.2 BIOS. When I install FreeBSD from CD it displays a warning stating that my disk Geometry of 155061/16/63 is not correct and that it will use a more likely setting (which turns out to be 9729/255/63 in the FDisk menu). The BIOS gives me three options for the type of Hard drive; CHS, LBA and Large, I can ONLY enter the settings for LBA (the settings that FreeBSD used above), any of the other settings displayed in my BIOS are rejected by FreeBSD with the same error message. However, if I set my disk geometry in FreeBSD to the same settings as what BIOS reports as LBA (9729/255/63) and also select this in my BIOS as my hard disk type, FreeBSD still gives me the following error and refuse to boot: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> error 4 lba 81915436 error 4 lba 81915436 No /bot/loader error 4 lba 81915346 No /kernel boot:? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I use Boot Manager with Windows XP on the first part of the HD and FreeBSD on the second part of the partition. Any help would be greatly appreciated Regards Peut