From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 03:19:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA04636 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 May 1995 03:19:16 -0700 Received: from inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com (inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com [192.86.155.81]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA04630 for ; Thu, 18 May 1995 03:19:15 -0700 Received: from iesun1.ie.oracle.com by inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com with SMTP (8.6.12/37.7) id DAA08090; Thu, 18 May 1995 03:19:10 -0700 Received: by iesun1.ie.oracle.com (4.1/37.3.TJL.1.84) id AA29977; Thu, 18 May 95 11:19:47 BST Message-Id: <9505181019.AA29977@iesun1.ie.oracle.com> Date: Thu, 18 May 95 11:19:47 BST From: "Henry Chung " To: mike@networx.ie Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 on WDC AC31000H Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Original-To: IEUNIX:mike@networx.ie Original-Cc: IEUNIX:freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In-Reply-To: IEUNIX:owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com's message of 05-18-95 08:54 Mike, I have a WDC AC31000H running both DOS and FreeBSD 2.0 fine, no problem. Are you based in Ireland? Regards, -- Henry Hyen-Vui Chung ================================================================================ ICL Product Line Developer | Oracle Corporation European Porting Centre | Maretimo Court, Temple Road e-mail: hchung@ie.oracle.com | Blackrock, Co. Dublin Tel : 353 1 2834700 ext 220 | Republic of Ireland Fax : 353 1 2834732 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Included Message ---- Received: 05-18-95 11:10 Sent: 05-18-95 08:54 From: IEUNIX:owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com To: FreeBSD Support questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 on WDC AC31000H Reply-To: IEUNIX:owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Return-Path: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have tried unsuccessfully to install FreeBSD 2.0 on a Gateway 2000 60MHz Pentium with a WDC AC31000H 1GB hard disk. The disk has 2100 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sec/trk. The FreeBSD slice goes from cylinder 968 to 2100 and the root partition is from cylinder 968 to 1008. The making of the partitions, /dev, etc. goes fine from the boot diskette, but when it says remove the boot diskette to boot from the hard disk, it just doesn't work. The MBR asks which O/S do I want to boot from but only DOS works. As you can see, the root partition is below 1K cylinders. Is there a list of branded PC configurations available for which FreeBSD is known to work. I've seen the hardware list FAQ on the FreeBSD CD but, frankly, it's not up to much. Thanks for any help, Mike