From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 15:02:13 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA04142 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:02:13 -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 PAA04120 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:02:02 -0700 Received: (from partek@localhost) by system1.indecent.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA07237; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:51:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:51:46 -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: <6511.809816665@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. > Well, that's still not assured if you create one big root partition; > then it's sort of a guess as to where it's going to stick the kernel > image. It sounds to me like the BIOS is unable, for one reason or > another, to read your kernel image. That's why it hangs. You should > also definitely have LBA mode off. This is how I had it: 450M FreeBSD partition 30M Swap 45M nothing So if I'm correct, the only thing that would go over the 1024th cylinder is the 45M unused partition. > Try this (with LBA off): > Install DOS on just a small (5MB or so) chunk at the beginning. You > may find this chunk useful in the future anyway since you can put DOS > based diagnostics and such there. Now install FreeBSD on the rest of > the space, allowing it to get the geometry from the DOS partition. Ok.. I'll back things up, get the minimal distribution(instead of spending 2 hours during the install), and give that a try. I'm also going to try disabling the external BIOS on this card to see if that works, but I'll try it your way first :) Thanks, Dave