From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 15: 9:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715EB37B66F for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02934; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 15:09:31 -0700 Message-ID: <39DF9F1B.52B322A7@urx.com> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 15:09:31 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Cummings Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot to install 4.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Cummings wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD over my old Linux partition. I have a 20G > IDE drive with a 10G partition for windows and 10G allotted to Linux (soon > to be FreeBSD). It's an Athlon 700 w/128M RAM, and when I try to boot, > with floppy or CD-ROM, I get the following right after booting starts: > > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: yes > / > int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030002 eip=0000567f > eax=00000208 ebx=00000000 ecx=c0010010 edp=00000100 > esi=0000000b edi=00000005 ebp=000003f4 esp=000003c4 > es=f000 ds=ec00 es=1000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e35 > es:eip = 0f 32 66 0d 00 00 08 00-0f 30 c3 66 b9 10 00 01 > ss:eip = f4 56 03 01 00 00 00 01-00 00 3d 1d 00 ec 6a 1d > System Halted > > This is very unsatisfying. Any ideas on what I could try next? I couldn't > find anything about this problem on the net. It was there but you didn't recognize it. The problem with 4.0 is that it has a 1024 cylinder boot rule. Your / partition has to come before cylinder 1024. That works out to be ~8.4GB with LBA turned on. You can't install FreeBSD 4.0 in the 2nd partition and make it work. FreeBSD 4.1 doesn't have a 1024 cylinder problem and would work. Kent > > Thanks! > > ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > > Mike Cummings | "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." < > > mook@drizzle.com | -- Bertrand Russell < > > ICQ #34152632 | < > `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message