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From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
To: "Micke Josefsson" <mj@isy.liu.se>
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Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!!
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:13:10 +0200
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Micke,

I've never had to fiddle with disk geometry before.  Should I be changing
the arguments to newfs during install?  And if so, how should I determine
what values to use?  Or does this go down to an even lower level?

Also - a question to whoever: LINT and GENERIC show support for AIC7xxx
cards, but is the AIC7899 perhaps too new and not yet supported?

Boot still won't!

Patrick.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Micke Josefsson
> Sent: 18 October 2001 13:03
> To: Patrick O'Reilly
> Cc: FreeBSD Question List
> Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!!
>
>
> My guess is that the geometry of the disk is not what the BIOS
> thinks it is. Or
> that the the geometry during install is not identical to what the
> BIOS thinks.
> Or some combination of the two:)
>
>
> /M
> On 18-Oct-2001 Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> > OK - I'm stumped - and probably doing something real dumb...
> >
> > I've installed 4.3 from the CD1 onto an Intel Tupelo MB, dual processor,
> > with 2 18G Cheetah SCSI disks under AIC 7899 onboard chipset.  Nothing
> > fancy - just plain standard installation. (512M swap slice and
> 17.5G / slice
> > on Disk 0, didn't do Disk 1 yet)
> >
> > Now she won't boot!  I tried with the standard MBR - stops
> saying "missing
> > operating system".  I tried with FreeBSD Boot manager - I get:
> > -------------------------------
> > F1  FreeBSD
> > F5  Drive 1
> >
> > Default: F1 _
> >
> > -------------------------------
> > but its dead - pressing F1 or Enter (or anything else) yields
> NO RESPONSE.
> >
> > Someone - PLEASE klobber me with the clue stick :)
> >
> > Patrick.
> >
> >
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