Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 12:07:41 -0700 From: "achan" <achan@sns.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Install problem Message-ID: <m0wEgGr-000Q3NC@mail.sns.com>
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Hi,
Will FreeBSD work on my system? Cause, I have tried Redhat 4.1 and
Slackware 3.1 on my system. Both don't seem to work with the boot manager
named 'System Commander'. I just could not get the LILO which I had
already installed into the super block of the Linux partition on my
hard-drive (not the boot sector, System Commander resides in boot sector).
As a result, I could only boot Window 95 with the boot manager as I start
up my system. Everytime, I want to run Linux, I have to use a floppy
disk.
The error message I got is 'Ending address to large' and 'BIOS parameter
limits Head=254 Sector=63 Cylinder=260'. I really have no clue how to
eliminate this problem. My system configuration is the following:
A Quatum Wide-SCSI drive with 2.1 Gigabyte storage
An Adapetec AHA2940UW SCCI controller with its own BIOS embedded onto my
Petium motherboard
I have used the first 1.2 gigabytes of my hard-drive for Dos and Window 95.
I created a primary partition and an extended partition starting at around
700 Mb up to the 1.2 Gb. The rest of my hard-drive (around 800 Mb) was
intended to use with Linux. I have tried alll kinds of comibination to
partioning of my hard-drive, but it still give me the same error. Do you
have any ideas? Is something not compatible with my hard-drive? All the
head, sector, cylinder settings for my drive are automatically configured
when I installed my system. How should I respond to the error?
I would like to know if FreeBSD will eliminate this error. If so, I
would like to try that on my system. Thanks very much for help!
Is FreeBSD compatible with all the UNIX or Linux softwares?
achan@sns.com
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