From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 22:45:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA19494 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 May 1995 22:45:07 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA19488 for ; Sun, 7 May 1995 22:45:06 -0700 Received: from cs.montana.edu (fubar.cs.montana.edu [153.90.192.3]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id VAA03717 for ; Sun, 7 May 1995 21:54:07 -0700 Received: by cs.montana.edu; id AA25427; Sun, 7 May 1995 23:00:44 -0600 Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 23:00:43 -0600 (MDT) From: "Bryan A. Young" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Install not writing to wd0? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a Zeos P66 with two IDE drives. Wd0 is a Seagate ST5660A with 1057 cylinders. Wd1 is an older Teac drive with 1282 cylinders and 4 heads. I've been able to get the boot disk to finish; however, when I attempt to reboot off wd0, the FreeBSD boot manager just gives me a ? when I hit "F3" for FreeBSD. In earlier attempts, I've been able to boot, but then I get a "Panic: No Init". Wd0 is composed of a 320 meg dos primary partition, a 2mb OS2 boot manager partition, followed by a 198 meg FreeBSD partition. I have "Large Disk DOS compatibility" turned OFF and LBA mode addressing turned on, and 16-sector transfers on. If I can't boot off the hard disk using the FreeBSD boot manager, I try it again off of the floppy, and find out, to my horror, that my FreeBSD boot flag is OFF, even though I hit 0x80 for on. After the system is restarted from FreeBSD, I often get the message that drive A: is set to the wrong type. FreeBSD also says my Pentium runs at anywhere from 48 to 64 MHZ. Again, strange. Thank You, Bryan Young