From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri May 31 12:21:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00667 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 31 May 1996 12:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.winc.com (root@home.winc.com [204.178.182.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA00661 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 12:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slip125.winc.com (slip125.winc.com [204.178.182.125]) by home.winc.com (8.7.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24237 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 15:21:22 -0400 From: mgessner@winc.com (Matthew Gessner) To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: problem with 810MB drive Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 19:25:17 GMT Organization: Aristar Software Development, Inc. Reply-To: mgessner@winc.com Message-ID: <31af4731.18750413@home.winc.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I have an 810MB hd (config. 1647/16/63) that I need to use on my FreeBSD machine. The BIOS accepts these parameters, even though it doesn't ask about LBA. When I start the installation, I can configure everything OK, but when I reboot, the BIOS says No Boot Sector. I've made sure that when I created the partitions, I set up the BootMgr to load. What am I doing wrong? I've installed on smaller disks with just the defaults with no problems. I've even tried to make multiple partitions, but the '>' flag shows up on the last one. How can I make this work? Will I need a boot floppy? I'm really pulling my hair out with this. I don't want to have to pull another, smaller 500MB drive out of another machine. I need this one. Also, I tried to format the disk under DOS, but it won't even let me make partitions on the disk. When I am in the middle of the installation, the file system looks OK, and I can do lots of things with it (this is the Alt-F3 screen while sysinstall is running). Thanks in advance, Matt Gessner --- Matthew A. Gessner Computer Scientist, Aristar, Inc. Software Systems for Handheld Computers Akron, Ohio, USA (330) 668-2267 (Voice) (330) 668-2961 (Fax)