Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:42:50 -0600 From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE install Message-ID: <199603231742.LAA12548@sierra.zyzzyva.com> In-Reply-To: jkh's message of Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:37:27 -0800. <19501.827487447@time.cdrom.com>
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> > 2. Could not seem to mount the fixit.flp. > > Hmmm. Symptoms? I've managed to use it myself, though no one would > say that it's not somewhat unwieldy.. > > Jordan More on this and another couple of strange issues that would be nice to solve.... As Jordan probably remembers, I originally contacted him with an oddball problem when trying to boot from the install floppy. I got the following error. > Error: C:6292878 > 1023 (BIOS Limit) After much hair tearing I figured out that I needed to have the 1.2MB floppy drive configured into the BIOS in order to successfully boot from the install floppy. Even when there is not a 1.2MB floppy available as I discovered later due to problem mentioned below. BIOS is an Award rev4.51PG Onboard Floppy Onboard PCI IDE controllers for primary and secondary. Secondary controller is disabled. Regarding mounting of the fixit.flp image: Selecting the options to mount this disk from sysinstall failed. It appears that it never makes a request of the 1.44MB drive that I booted from. This is the only floppy device on the system, however as noted above, the BIOS thinks that fd1 is a 1.2MB. Leading me to my last question: I attempted to install a new set of boot blocks to FORCE_COMCONSOLE with 'disklabel -B wd0' after recompiling the boot code from FreeBSD-stable. The result nuked my partition table and MBR on the drive forcing me to reinstall. When I installed the first time, I chose the option to use "ALL" and to not be compatible with future OS installs. The net effect seemed to be that the FreeBSD partition begins with the first cylinder instead of an offset of 1 cyl. What did I do wrong here? Guidance appreciated. I'm CCing this to hackers and install. Since I am new to these lists, please go easy if this is inappropriate. Feel free to forward to other lists that should be seeing this. -Randy
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