Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:11:16 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE/eIDE issues Message-ID: <199511170111.RAA02655@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199511161421.PAA22771@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Nov 16, 95 03:21:00 pm
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the simple way to get it to work:: install a dos partition on the drive (and nothing else) boot BSD change the dos part to BSD use it.. the secret is to make sure that you give the geometry that the BIOS uses > > For some installation tests I bought a brandnew Quantum Fireball640 > (612 MB) thinking it would be least risky to use IDE/eIDE to install FreeBSD. > > But it turns out to be the most cumbersome installation I was doing > ever :-( > > I can't the hell get it to boot. After several tries with > 'missing operating system' results I finally got it to find > the boot loader but when the kernel is being loaded > all I can get is the first | from the twisting |/-\'s then hang. > > I tried with IDE, and two different eIDE (VLB) controller to no avail. > > Do I need to put special disk software that came with the controller > to the disk first ? I always thought FreeBSD can cope with any disk > geometry/IDE drive size as long as the partition can be reached from > the BIOS. > > Looking back I find that I did only do mostly SCSI installations > in the past and my (successful) IDE installations date back into > times where common IDE drives used to have less than 1/2 GB. > > I tried to read the handbook first before coming up here > but in fact the handbook is very sparse on (e)IDE. > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de >
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