Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:30:50 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: "'Keith Kelly'" <c0d3h4x0r@hotmail.com> Cc: 'freebsd-questions ORG' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS Message-ID: <006f01c3e219$b370f4d0$0201a8c0@aragorn> In-Reply-To: <Sea1-DAV31YelUMDnwR00030475@hotmail.com>
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> > I don't know. I've never had to change away from "Auto" to > get any other OS > to install or boot from any of my hard drives, though, so I > really doubt > that is the problem. I'm quite confident the problem must > lie with FreeBSD > itself, in the form of a bug or a lack of hardware support. > Although my > integrated IDE controller and all other basic hardware is on > the FreeBSD > supported hardware list. > Not the best solution, but have you thought of using the Gag boot loader to get around this? (sourceforge) > > > > > [ ... ] > > > I definitely do not have hardware issues, because Linux, > Windows XP, > > > Windows 2000, BeOS, and SkyOS have all worked fine at various > > > points, and Windows XP > > > continues to work fine :-) > > > > Your error message reflects a BIOS-level failure to find a bootable > > partition. > > > > Do you already have a bootable partition on the system, and > are trying > > to install FreeBSD in a second partition? If so, which > partition is > > marked active? > > No. The hard drive is the only hard drive attached (I > detached my two other > drives with WinXP and data files on them, so they couldn't > get inadvertently > hosed during installation... those two devices were on the > primary IDE > chain. I moved the blank hard drive and the CD-ROM drive, > which were on the > secondary IDE chain, onto the primary IDE chain to try to get FreeBSD > installed that way. There's currently nothing on the > secondary IDE chain). > And, I did ensure in all my attempts that I marked the single > full-disk > slice I created with fdisk as bootable. My thought here is to double check that the drive is in the master position on the ribbon.
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