From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 19:57:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA03650 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 19:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03619 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 19:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA28612; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:01:10 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 20:01:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Wayne Tamagi cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot up problem In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960505001507.006c8acc@pop.unixg.ubc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 May 1996, Wayne Tamagi wrote: > >>FreeBSD Boot... > Use hd(1,a)/kernel to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed > etc... > > My computer would just hang and I can see the hard drive is running > constantly (red light on front is on). Can anyone advise me what I can do? Try making a small DOS partition on that disk, then install. You can erase the DOS partition in the fdisk editor if you don't want it. The DOS parition will telegraph the proper geometry to FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major