Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:13:10 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> To: "Micke Josefsson" <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!! Message-ID: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAICEHCDLAA.patrick@mip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011018130304.mj@isy.liu.se>
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Micke, I've never had to fiddle with disk geometry before. Should I be changing the arguments to newfs during install? And if so, how should I determine what values to use? Or does this go down to an even lower level? Also - a question to whoever: LINT and GENERIC show support for AIC7xxx cards, but is the AIC7899 perhaps too new and not yet supported? Boot still won't! Patrick. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Micke Josefsson > Sent: 18 October 2001 13:03 > To: Patrick O'Reilly > Cc: FreeBSD Question List > Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!! > > > My guess is that the geometry of the disk is not what the BIOS > thinks it is. Or > that the the geometry during install is not identical to what the > BIOS thinks. > Or some combination of the two:) > > > /M > On 18-Oct-2001 Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > OK - I'm stumped - and probably doing something real dumb... > > > > I've installed 4.3 from the CD1 onto an Intel Tupelo MB, dual processor, > > with 2 18G Cheetah SCSI disks under AIC 7899 onboard chipset. Nothing > > fancy - just plain standard installation. (512M swap slice and > 17.5G / slice > > on Disk 0, didn't do Disk 1 yet) > > > > Now she won't boot! I tried with the standard MBR - stops > saying "missing > > operating system". I tried with FreeBSD Boot manager - I get: > > ------------------------------- > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > Default: F1 _ > > > > ------------------------------- > > but its dead - pressing F1 or Enter (or anything else) yields > NO RESPONSE. > > > > Someone - PLEASE klobber me with the clue stick :) > > > > Patrick. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se > > This message was sent by XFMail > running on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE > ---------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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