From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 8 12:09:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA24593 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 12:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sns.com (jack.sns.com [199.35.183.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA24579 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 12:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.sns.com by mail.sns.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0wEgGr-000Q3NC; Tue, 8 Apr 97 12:09 PDT Message-Id: From: "achan" To: Subject: Install problem Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 12:07:41 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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