From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 17:30:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2120016A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from clanbuckbuck.org (c-24-17-98-189.client.comcast.net [24.17.98.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D14E43D39 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryallsd@datasphereweb.com) Received: (qmail 12407 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2004 01:30:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aragorn) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 24 Jan 2004 01:30:49 -0000 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "'Keith Kelly'" Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:30:50 -0800 Message-ID: <006f01c3e219$b370f4d0$0201a8c0@aragorn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal cc: 'freebsd-questions ORG' Subject: RE: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:30:53 -0000 > > 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.