Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 12:42:26 -0500 From: "J. Kodadek" <jkodadek@winternet.com> To: install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation woes, part 2 Message-ID: <199509031742.MAA22325@parka>
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I posted this a few days ago on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, and someone suggested I forward it to install@freebsd.org, so... : Ok, I posted a few days ago, but my post seems to have disappeared. Also, : if you read this, Jordan, I sent you a much more specific email a few : days ago but haven't gotten a response (I probably messed up, though). : So, I will start again. : I have a brand new Dell Dimension P75 with IDE controller built into the : motherboard, I can't find any other info on it. The drive is a Quantum : Fireball 1080A. I have a ~350M dos partition at the beginning of the : disk (according to dos fdisk anyways.) I have the files from the 2.0.5R : cdrom copied to this partition (bin, xf86311, manpages, etc). : I can use the boot disk and get through the installation menus and : everything fine, but when I do "Commit", I get the following error: : Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and try : again. : I was told this probably a disk geometry problem, so I checked the real : geometry. The label on the disk and pfdisk both say it's 2112/16/53. : The FreeBSD fdisk thinks it's 528/64/63. When I tried to change it in : FreeBSDs fdisk to the correct settings, here is what I try to do with the : partition table and the error I get: : Disk name: wd0 : Bios Geom: 2112/16/53 : Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags : : 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 : 63 717633 717695 wd0s1 2 fat 6 : 717696 1410784 2128479 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C : 2128480 416 2128895 - 6 unused 0 : --------------------------------Message------------------------------- : chunk 'wd0s1' [63...717695] does not start on a track boundary. : chunk 'wd0s2' [717696...2128479] does not start on a track boundary. : ----------------------------------------------------------100%-------- : --------------------------------[EXIT]-------------------------------- : If I confirm and go ahead and try to install from here, it messes up my : dos partition and it still does not install FreeBSD. I'd appreciate some : help so I can give FreeBSD a try on a real system and decide if I want to : keep it over Linux. Thanks. : P.S.: regarding the first error, YES, the root.flp IS in the correct : place. : jess kodadek : jkodadek@winternet.com
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