From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 22:06:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA10876 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 22:06:30 -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 WAA10871 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 22:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA29663; Mon, 6 May 1996 22:10:19 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 22:10:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: wayne tamagi cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems booting up In-Reply-To: <318CEF47.38C4@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 Sun, 5 May 1996, wayne tamagi wrote: This message seems remotely familiar. Sorry if I've answered it already. > Hello I am having problems with installing Freebsd. I have installed it > many times and have come up unsuccessful throughout the job. [...] > I've read some troubleshooting and it states > it is likely it is the disk geometry. So I checked it after the first > installation and it was wrong so I set it up to the assummed settings. I > went into CMOS to find it. I have an IBM OS/2 IDE drive 730MB. In CMOS it > showed the geometry as 1416/16/63 (cylinders/heads/sectos per track). I > used these setting and re-installed FreeBsd and bootup and the results were > even worse! At the bootup manager when I enter F2 it did not go to: [deleted] Try making a small DOS partition on the disk, then install FreeBSD, deleting the DOS partition in the process if you do not want it. FreeBSD will grab the geometry it wants from that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major