Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:15:58 +0100 From: David Dooley <dpd@raffles-it.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems booting a Digital 5000 PC Message-ID: <200104160115.f3G1FwG02498@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com>
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--==_Exmh_822413248P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I have a Digital 5000 PC that I have been trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 on to for the last couple of weeks. It would appear that I can install FreeBSD no problem, but when I try and boot my nice new clean install I get a 'read error' and that's it. I can boot from the 2nd CD and muck about with the disk disklabel and fdisk to no avail. The system was running Win98 and so I thought that I would try and reinstall that and see if the drive was nackered, but it worked and it booted up into Windows first time. I have now gone back to FreeBSD 4.2 and I once again get this 'read error' error message. I have tried to be 'Dangerously Dedicated' and not with no success. I found an option in the BIOS that's under the Advanced option tab of my Phoenix BIOS that is labelled 'Large Disk Access Mode' and has the options 'DOS' and 'OTHER'. In the help panel the text is UNIX, Novell Netware, or other operating systems, select 'OTHER'. If you are installing new software and the drive failes, change this selection and try again. Different operating systems require different representations of drive geometries. I have tried every permutation of Other/Dos and Not/Dangerously Dedicated. Just this evening I tried to install FreeBSD again, but this time I tried using a small root partition thinking it maybe something to do with old machine and large partitions, so I set the root partition to be 512M and 128M swap and /usr everything else. Previously I had set the root partition to be everything bar 128M for swap. I have done this rebuild tonight with 'Dangerously dedicated' set and the BIOS setting set to both DOS and other. Just as an aside the option was set to DOS but when I installed Win98 I had mistakenly left it at 'Other' and it still worked. Once I have FreeBSD installed, this machines prime function will be to be a print server for a postscript printer, with the occasional duty as a cd burner. The system is a Pentium 2 233MHz with 96MB ram and a 3.2 GB IDE Hard Drive (1st channel, Master), 1 CDROM (2nd channel, Master), 1 CD-RW (1st channel, slave). The drive has been partitioned Thanks for your time and any assistance. David. --==_Exmh_822413248P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 iD8DBQE62kfOiTCzTVFwd6wRAg4RAJ9SY2xNasIlmicdDswLPU7qmvlRMACeJYg5 RY0OvX/53pIGu/PNPDAN9TA= =I28J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_822413248P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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