Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:12:17 -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.3.96.970821201150.300A-100000@Journey2.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970821154049.7866K-100000@defenestration.hq.tis.com>
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Brian Wellington wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > 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? > > Those numbers came from the FreeBSD boot message, and matched the numbers > on the sticker on the disk, and the BIOS autodetection, so I assume > they're right. I just looked at pfdisk.exe and didn't see a way to print > the geometry. The "L" option lists the whole partition table, and the geometry also. > > Brian > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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