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Date:      Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Brian Wellington <bwelling@tis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Quantum 3.1G IDE HD - dual boot
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970821154034.302D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970821143824.9035A-100000@defenestration.hq.tis.com>

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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?

> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 

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