From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Aug 24 02:22:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA24132 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 02:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA24121; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 02:22:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Joerg Wunsch Received: (from joerg@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) id CAA12913; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 02:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 02:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708240921.CAA12913@freefall.freebsd.org> To: steveric@erols.com, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/3359 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Synopsis: FreeBSD wont boot on amd p133 State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: joerg State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 24 11:20:12 MEST 1997 State-Changed-Why: This is a typical geometry problem, as described in the installation docs and as can be found in various answers in the mail archives. Make sure FreeBSD uses the _BIOS_ geometry in its fdisk editor. The CPU type is totally irrelevant, but your both machines for sure use a different BIOS geometry.