From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 14:48:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA20951 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20914 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA15795; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:49:07 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:49:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: wirehead@pobox.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WIN95 installed before 2.2-SNAP..now problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm hoping this is going to the right person. On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, -=WIreHead=- wrote: > Just installed FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP on a > 486DX2/66 genu INTeL > with 1.2 gig caviar drive and 8mb's of mem > > Win95 was installed first on 504 or so megs of the drive > ten i installed freebsd on the 600 or so other megs of drive. > install went like a breeze. I installed the boot-easy boot manager > So after the install i went to reboot. 504MB is really pushing it. The entire root partition has to be below 1024 cylinders, about 520MB. I bet you didn't make it. Try making a small root partition at the beginning of the disk, install Win95 behind it, and put the rest of the FreeBSD slice at the end. This way the root partition is below the 1024 cylinder mark. > IT SOUNDED WEIRD!!!! Your IDE controller told your drive to do something wacky, and it did it. I don't think it hurt it but it sure sounds scary. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major