From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 14:59:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA07489 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA07475 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:59:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01532; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 15:00:00 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 15:00:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Werner Kuehnert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problems with FreeBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: <9604020720.AA26762@zerberus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Werner Kuehnert wrote: > Last weekend I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my computer and had only little > success. I have the distribution on CD and everything works fine (booting, > partitioning, labeling, choice of packages and so on) up to the point of first > reboot, which didn't work because there was no bootable partition left :-( Hm. > My configuration is : > Intel Plato MB with 100Mhz Pentium, 32Mb RAM, NCR 810 SCSI-Controller and the > following devices : Curiously, what BIOS? The BIOS has to give support for the NCR 810 series. > ID0: Toshiba MK438FB 857MB HD > ID1: CDC 94191-15 630MB HD (Wren 6) > ID2: Wangtek 5150ES Tape drive > ID3: Toshiba CD-ROM > ID5: Quantum Lightning 700MB HD > ID6: Iomega ZIP-Drive Looks OK there. > The partitions are as follows : > Drive ID0 : > #1: Primary DOS 127MB > #2: Extended DOS 64MB 1 log. drive > #3: Non-DOS (0xA5) 665MB > Drive ID1 : > #1: Non-DOS (0xA5) 630MB > Drive ID5 : > #1: Extended-DOS 349MB 2 log. drives > #2: Non-DOS (0xA5) 350MB I assume this is before the alleged catastrophe :-) Could I see how it is set up now? > I tried to install the system onto partition #3 / drive ID0. When I boor from > a DOS-disk the second (extended partition) is gone. I tried to install the > boot selector program supplied with freebsd. Were you running a disk translator utility to let you use all of the disks? I don't know if they are needed for SCSI disks too. > So what's going on here ? Why am I unable to boot from the HD after installing > freebsd ? Why is thye second partition gone after the installation ? How can I > fix this problem _without_ repartitioning my HD's ? Sounds like: 1) A disk translator got trashed and now the BIOS can't get to the other partition. 2) Somehow that partition was deleted. Did you look at the partition setup with DOS FDISK afterwards? Is there any other operating systems on the machine? I wonder if you are over the 4 slice limit. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major