From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 23 18:02:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA15359 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:02:19 -0700 Received: from friendly.net5b.io.org (friendly.net5b.io.org [199.166.191.20]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA15351 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:02:11 -0700 Received: (from swedguy@localhost) by friendly.net5b.io.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA00198; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 21:01:50 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 21:01:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Erickson To: Brian Litzinger cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NCR 810 based card won't boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Apr 1995, Brian Litzinger wrote: > > I've been trying to replace an Adaptec 1542B in my P5-90 PCI system > with either a BT946C or NCR810 PCI controller. > > Trying to install SNAP 950412, the NCR810 controller is recognized > and the whole install goes without a hitch. > > However, when it comes time to do the boot from the hard drive, I either > get: > > 1) hangs, if using FDISK /mbr > I dont know that one. > 2) BootManager just repeats its F? each time I press a key. > Well, you have to turn off your Translator in CMOS chip. > The drive, Fujitsu M2664ESA, was detected by the FreeBSD install as > 1 head, 63 sectors, and ~300000 or so cylinders. > > I changed the geometry tp 32 heads, 64 sectors and the appropriate number > of cylinders. > DO not change anything to disk geometry. IT must be the same as the hard drive's specifications. Don't worry about the rest. > Lastly, I kept the entire FreeBSD below cylinder 1024. Any ideas? > Yes, your "/" must be mounted within 1024 cylinders. And the rest like /usr can go more than 1024 cylinders. It seems a lot of people problems with these situations. I had a problem too. Steven Erickson