From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 29 11:45:01 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA01122 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 11:45:01 -0800 Received: from plains.NoDak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA01107 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 11:44:58 -0800 Received: by plains.NoDak.edu; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:44:42 -0600 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:44:42 -0600 From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199412291944.AA26131@plains.NoDak.edu> To: timmy@mercury.sfsu.edu Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Problems Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk with LBA turned on, only the first partition is bootable. you have to turn off the LBA (and this translates the IDE differently -- I think they usually double the head and half the cylinders to fool DOS) I found now that you are using the real drive geometry you have to re-intall DOS and FreeBSD. It has been about 6 months since I last played with this, but I couldn't get any OS in any partition other than the first partition with LBA turned on. --mark.