Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:14:41 -0500 (EST) From: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> To: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A multi-OS Installation of FreeBSD 2.2.8 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990225140656.535A-100000@bingsun2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.95.990225080736.178B-100000@CENTRAL>
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, zhihuizhang wrote:
>
> > I have posted similar messages some time ago and I have not figured out my
> > problem since then. My machine already has Windows-NT, DOS, Linux
> > installed on it. I tried to install FreeBSD at the last primary partition
> > which is 1.4Gig. Everthing went soomthly except when I reboot the machine
> > and let system commander to choose the partion labeled as BSD to boot
> > from, I got the "read error" message and the system hangs.
>
> Have you tried using a boot floppy and attempting to mount the hard disk
> partition containing your FreeBSD installation? This might give an
> indication as to whether your machine's BIOS or System Commander
> doesn't like the FreeBSD partition or there's some other problem.
No. How to mount? I can not run FreeBSD on that machine yet.
> The only thing that comes to mind is that there is/was a requirement that
> bootable partitions (or perhaps the OS boot code at least) had to be
> within the first 1024 cylinders. Depending on the BIOS settings, some
> BIOSes remap drive geometries so that the whole disk appears to
> unsophisticated boot code/OSes to have <=1024 cylinders, which avoids the
> problem. I don't know whether System Commander is capable of working
> around such BIOS limitations. You also don't say how big the drive is -
> if its greater than 8.4GB (which will remap to >255 heads with 1024
> cylinders) then its not inconceivable this might be part of your problem.
> FreeBSD 2.2.8 itself will not have any problems with such a large drive
> though.
>
I got three primary partitions in my machine and the FreeBSD is the last.
I tried to setup the primary master disk in BIOS as follows:
type size clyls head precomp landz sector mode
user 6449 784 255 0 13327 63 LBA
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(All the numbers come out automatically when I select LBA mode) But I got
the same error message (I did reinstall FreeBSD after this) - "read
error". I hope someone can give me more hints.
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