Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:02:48 -0500 (CDT) From: mikebo@tellabs.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from drive D: Message-ID: <9909162302.AA24034@tellabc.tellabs.com>
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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
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