From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 17 5:55:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A5F37B491 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 05:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (sv.meiway.com [212.73.210.79]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 48BF06A906 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:55:49 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217144545.026c6b80@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:53:35 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: can't boot 4.2R In-Reply-To: <003e01c098e2$96e206c0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217131639.01ac6030@mail.Go2France.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010217134955.01b5c870@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've never has such problem in the past, so my wild guess would be: > >1) wrong disk geometry? (very likely considering how old your drive >is) no, 768 cyl, 14 hd, 62 cyl >2) Some very weird disk seagate ST3390A > with very weird bios ( i doubt that this is the case) me, neither >3) Wrong install procedure how many install procedures are there with FreeBSD 4.2R? >For number 1: Try getting some real values for the drive C/H/S. they are correct as displayed in the system BIOS bootup screen > I guess the drive is not working in LBA mode? no >I cannot suggest anything particular, but you >might try playing with the drive MODE and REAL/BIOS values for C/H/S when >installing FreeBSD. > >As for number 2: get something newer and more standard nowadays seagate ST3390A is old but not exotic. In the compaq prolinea 466, it ran FreeBSD 4.2 just fine. In fact, when I put took this old drive out of the prolinea and into the P133 case, I tried to boot with the FreeBSD that was there, and got the same F1 F2 F3 menu, and same symptom: hit F1, see a quick disk access, and a beep, but no error msg or chance of progress. The OS is there but I just can't get past the booting. >As For number3: when in fdisk DO NOT PRESS 'W". Just create a slice ( >which is what dos calls partition), make it a real partition (not >dedicated), then just press 'Q' in label editor create all FBSD >partions and press >Q again. I've done that. >Installer should do the job automaticcaly. Again, watch out for the >disk geometry. disk geo looks ok. I guess I'll have to find another disk. thanks, Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message