From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 15:04:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA01028 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:04:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu (splice@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu [130.74.1.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01023 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:04:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id RAA01165; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:04:27 -0600 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:04:27 -0600 (CST) From: Splice To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: IBM PS/1 Installation Help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have been trying to install FreeBSD onto my PS/1 for a couple of hours and haven't been able to get the boot floppy to work. I tried just letting it boot, and with a '-c' option from the boot: prompt. All It freezes after a few lines of init stuff and a few seconds and repeatedly outputs this line indefinitely: Error: C:64 H:0 S:4 Now I know I had a problem getting Linux to work on my system because for some reason, IBM doesn't store any hard drive geometry in bios, but I got around that by giving cylinders, heads, and sectors at the boot prompt. Is this the problem, or should I just accept the fact that the PS/1 with all its proprietary inadequacies just isn't the system for FreeBSD? Thanks for your time! - Patrick - splice@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu