Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:36:13 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: ron@cts.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumb installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911203403.509C-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970911155947.ron@cts.com>
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The disk geometry your bios thinks you have and the disk geometry
FreeBSD thinks you have don't match. Either change you bios to match
what FreeBSD sees of change what FreeBSD sees to match your bios.
-- Jay
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 ron@cts.com wrote:
> In an effort to be totally free of MicroSoft corruption, I did not provide
> a dos partition on my nice new 4GB SCSI drive. Well, certainly outsmarted
> myself there. After installing BootEasy, I get an endless F? prompt no matter
> which function key I depress. Well and good; I can boot with the boot floppy.
>
> I am vulnerable to unattended reboots, however. I am interested in
> finding a solution, short of repartitioning, for this installation gaff. One
> thing that comes to mind is that if I could change the default on the boot
> floppy, I would be molified. How would I do that (lacking the presumed dos
> compilers/assemblers/linkers needed to rebuild it)? Any other ideas that come
> to mind would be appreciated.
>
> relevent info:
>
> INTEL Tuscon motherboard
> Adaptec 2940 UW scsi
> SDT7000 tape
> Toshiba 16x scsi cdrom
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> E-Mail: ron@cts.com
> Date: 09/11/97
> Time: 15:34:23
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