From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 8 23:41:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA00828 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 23:41:55 -0800 Received: from rmii.com (root@rainbow.rmii.com [198.59.29.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA00820 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 23:41:52 -0800 Received: from slip854.rmii.com by rmii.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #31) id m0rcNg5-0002npC; Wed, 8 Feb 95 18:28 MST Message-Id: X-Sender: eprice@rmii.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 19:16:39 -0700 To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: eprice@rmii.com (Emmett Price) Subject: install problem X-Mailer: Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.0 for the first time from a CD. I have an older 386 (generic) with a 406MB WD caviar which is disk 0 (master) and is entirely devoted to DOS. I purchased an 850MB WD caviar to use entirely for BSD. It is the secondary (slave) on the IDE controller. My BIOS and controller won't support the 850, but I was able to enter the correct geometry in the BIOS. When I go through the install, everything appears to work fine. The BSD boot from the floppy finds both disks with the correct geometry. I am able to write the MBR, do the FDISK on the second drive and do the disklabel functions correctly. When I remove the floppy to proceed, the system reboots, I get a choice of F1 for DOS or F5 for the second disk. I choose F5 which gives me the choice of F1 for FreeBSD or F5 for the first disk. I choose F1 and get the boot prompt. I enter hd(1,a)/kernel per the instructions from the troubleshooting read me file. the system boots and then "panics" out unable to mount the root filesystem. If I reboot from the floppy and run the install program again, the disklabel show the disk slices are still correct, but all assignment info is gone. I tried reassigning the slices, writing the disklabel (successfully), entering quit, then reentering the disklabel function and doing a reread. This also shows the assignments are gone. I can hear the disk being written whenever I write the disklabel. Can this be a result of 1) no dos partion on the drive, 2) must I upgrade the controller for freebsd, 3) ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.....thanks