From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 16 01:21:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA21771 for current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 01:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA21746 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 01:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA08158; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:21:20 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA13371; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:21:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA00556; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:00:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602160900.KAA00556@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [HELP] Cannot boot To: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:00:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602160418.XAA07428@sloop.cis.ufl.edu> from "sycheng@cis.ufl.edu" at Feb 15, 96 11:18:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As sycheng@cis.ufl.edu wrote: > > I don't know if this is a FAQ but I really need your help. It's been discussed here a couple of days ago. > I just try to install FreeBSD-current into a Quantum 1280MB HD, which > is attached to a Promise EIDE2300plus card. It is using LBA mode. > 1. Whole drive is dedicated to FreeBSD. (one partition). In this case, have you also tried it without LBA mode? FreeBSD doesn't use it, but also doesn't need it. It doesn't suffer from a 1024-ficticuous-cylinder-limit (execept for boot where it's using the BIOS). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)