From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 20:22:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27428 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:22:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from LoneStar.rcclub.org (lonestar.rcclub.org [205.175.220.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27221 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lgvagner@rcclub.org) From: lgvagner@rcclub.org Received: from ginger.kf7nn.com (LoneStar11.rcclub.org [205.175.220.220]) by LoneStar.rcclub.org (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA18129 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:20:45 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:20:16 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: figured it out Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i was trying to install freebsd on a old 486 to test and it had 3 scsi hdd's, i kept getting error c:1456 > 1023 error msg. i thought it was a bios limitation. but i was able to install it on the IDE disk and thought there gotta be something going on here. doing a fdisk /mbr with the 3 drives plugged in didnt help but doing it with the new seagate 1 gig did. i am able to have my first 2 small drives as / and /var and /swap and my 1 gig as /usr now !! I guess Seagate puts a non-detectable MBR on their drives because i wasn't even able to install dos onto that drive until i did the fdisk /mbr on it. I kept getting "no bootable partitions" but fdisk reported it just fine. So what drive does fdisk /mbr clean if there are more than one drive installed in the machine? I thought ALL but i was wrong. (I think) ---------------------------------- E-Mail: lgvagner@rcclub.org Date: 28-Sep-98 Time: 22:12:01 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message