From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 13:55:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA00604 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:55:34 -0700 Received: from system1.indecent.com (system1.indecent.com [204.95.227.58]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA00595 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:55:30 -0700 Received: (from partek@localhost) by system1.indecent.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA06634; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:47:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:46:58 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller In-Reply-To: <6228.809814277@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Quick thing to try (assuming that you haven't blown away that FreeBSD > partition yet). Boot from the boot floppy again, but instead of > hitting return at the `boot:' prompt try this: > boot: hd(0,a)/kernel > (or) > boot: wd(0,a)/kernel > And let us know if it comes up. If so, it's the boot blocks getting > spooged somehow. If not, it may be because your root partition is > somehow past cylinder 1024? The partition is already gone, but I had tried that several times anyways. I tried from the floppy and from the HD.. It did the same thing each time. FreeBSD was on a 515MB HD with 1048 cylinders.. I tried it with LBA mode on and off. The FreeBSD partitions were at the front of the disk, so being past cylinder 1024 shouldn't have been a problem. This is how I have things layed out: HD0 is a Western Digital AC2250F 250M HD. CHS=1010/9/55 HD1 is a Western Digital AC2540H 515M HD. CHS=1048/16/63 With LBA off CHS=524/32/63 with LBA on. > You don't say what else is on the disk, if anything. Linux and Win95 used to be, but I wiped those out when I installed FreeBSD. Thanks, Dave