From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 16: 2:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tellab5.tellabs.com (tellab5.tellabs.com [138.111.243.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A7BE14D78 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikebo@tellabs.com) Received: from tellabc.tellabs.com by tellab5.tellabs.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m11RkYD-0003cEC; Thu, 16 Sep 99 18:02 CDT Received: by tellabc.tellabs.com (4.1/1.9) id AA24034; Thu, 16 Sep 99 18:02:48 CDT From: mikebo@tellabs.com Message-Id: <9909162302.AA24034@tellabc.tellabs.com> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from drive D: To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:02:48 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1081 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Previously, I wrote: > I'm trying to install and boot FreeBSD from a 2nd SCSI disk. It installs > OK, but will not boot using either BootEasy or System Commander booters. I've been able to get FreeBSD booting. I believe the problem was related to the drive geometry consisting of >1024 cylinders. While I was experimenting with the FBSD "fdisk" tool, the geometry changed before my eyes to have 255 heads and <1024 cylinders. I don't know what I did (if anything) to get this to happen. I also opted to give the entire disk to FreeBSD, so I did not use the industry standard 4-slot partition table. I'm not sure which of these two changed allowed me to boot, but I'm up and running. Thanks all! - Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec -- mikebo@tellabs.com -- Tellabs Operations, Inc. Lead Engineer, Engineering Software Tools 4951 Indiana Ave., MS 57 630-512-8019 FAX: 630-512-7010 Lisle, IL 60532 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message