Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:08:18 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Waddell <waddell@POSC.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, questions@FreeBSD.org, waddell@POSC.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More on stand/newfs failure Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950127085315.739H-100000@sys14> In-Reply-To: <1209.791075050@time.cdrom.com>
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Well I decided to pull an all-nighter to sort this out. I backed up my D: drive (the one with DOS in the first partition) and dedicated the whole drive to FreeBSD. I had no problem at all. The whole installation went pretty smoothly. This leads me to suspect the drive translation scheme i.e. DOS's 255,63,243 versus more Unix like 2621,21,71. Does that fit with your thoughts? The CDRom was no problem. The only problems I had were: (1) my SMC 8013 which for various reasons is at Interrupt 2, I/O 0x260 and Memory CC00. FreeBSD only seems to allow it at 0x280 or 0x300. Is this modifiable in a kernel rebuild? (2) The Boot record didn't get written. should this be written to my primary drive (i.e. the Maxtor 213S sd0, the one that contains the active DOS partition)? At this point the only way I can boot FreeBSD is to load the Boot floppy and type sd(1,a)/kernel. If I do this what wil be the procedure to boot DOS? Finally, since my D: drive had all of my company's accounting info on it I would like to restore it at some stage. Any suggestions? Thanks again for your help. Dave On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > What do they use at Walnut Creek? I was under the impression that they > > used FreeBSD for their 32GB of stuff. Is there any way to adjust the > > disk parameters with some other program? Or, even better, can I do the > > whole thing by hand i.e. the newfs'ing and installation. Finally, will > > the OS recognize my CDRom when it finally boots? > > We actually boot off a much smaller (2GB) drive with a translated > geometry of 2MB/cyl. This works fine. The other drives can be > hand-newfs'd without any trouble since you're up and running at that > point and can run newfs easily. At boot time, there isn't even a > shell to facilitate this (no room!). > > I don't remember what kind of CDROM you have - can you refresh my > memory? > > Jordan > ========================================================================== | Dave Waddell | Disclaimer - I don't even speak for myself | | waddell@posc.org | | | kb5wxe@kb5wxe.ampr.org | + 1 713 267 5103 | ==========================================================================
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