From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 11:14:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA00380 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 11:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unixg.ubc.ca (mail.unixg.ubc.ca [137.82.27.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA00369 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 11:14:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UBC.ubc.ca (port42.annex2.net.ubc.ca [137.82.220.142]) by unixg.ubc.ca (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18568 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 11:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <318CEF47.38C4@unixg.ubc.ca> Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 11:11:19 -0700 From: wayne tamagi X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems booting up X-URL: http://www.freebsd.com/support.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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