Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 11:11:19 -0700 From: wayne tamagi <wtamagi@unixg.ubc.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems booting up Message-ID: <318CEF47.38C4@unixg.ubc.ca>
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Hello I am having problems with installing Freebsd. I have installed it many times and have come up unsuccessful throughout the job. My IDE drive is partitioned and I have Windows 95 on the C drive and I did an install from C drive onto my D drive. The D drive is dedicated for Freebsd. I stripped down my configuration settings for all my hardware. I have been doing a minimal installation. I've read some troubleshooting and it states it is likely it is the disk geometry. So I checked it after the first installation and it was wrong so I set it up to the assummed settings. I went into CMOS to find it. I have an IBM OS/2 IDE drive 730MB. In CMOS it showed the geometry as 1416/16/63 (cylinders/heads/sectos per track). I used these setting and re-installed FreeBsd and bootup and the results were even worse! At the bootup manager when I enter F2 it did not go to: >>FreeBSD Boot... Use hd(1,a)/kernel to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed etc... My computer would just hang and I can see the hard drive is running constantly (red light on front is on). Can anyone advise me what I can do? When I used the disk geometry 708/32/63 and go to boot up I would get >>FreeBSD Boot... Use hd(1,a)/kernel to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed etc... But that's it. The hard drive was not running. What am I doing wrong? Wayne
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