Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:51:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Wellington <bwelling@tis.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum 3.1G IDE HD - dual boot Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970821154049.7866K-100000@defenestration.hq.tis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970821154034.302D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Brian Wellington wrote: > > > We recently got a Quantum Fireball 3.1G IDE HD, and are trying to get Win > > 95 and FreeBSD to dual boot. The drive info is: > > > > wd0: QUANTUM FIREBALL TM3200A 3067M 6281856 sectors 6232c/16h/63s 512b/sec > > > > Since you can't boot from a partition crossing the 1024 cylinder limit, we > > made a 400M FAT partition at the beginning, and then a 50M FreeBSD > > partiton to be used as /. After installing FreeBSD (2.2.2) on the drive, > > it won't boot FreeBSD from wd0s2. Hitting F2 at the bootloader prompt > > causes nothing to happen, except the prompt changes to "F?". This drive > > is replacing a WD 3.1G IDE drive which worked perfectly in the same > > computer and configuration (until it died). > > Are you certain of the actual cylinder mapping being used on the drive? > I mean, did you use pfdisk.exe to get the info? Those numbers came from the FreeBSD boot message, and matched the numbers on the sticker on the disk, and the BIOS autodetection, so I assume they're right. I just looked at pfdisk.exe and didn't see a way to print the geometry. Brian
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