Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:37:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: achan <achan@sns.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970408222428.3224H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <m0wEgGr-000Q3NC@mail.sns.com>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, achan wrote: > Will FreeBSD work on my system? I don't know, I've helped to hundreds of installs with varying degrees of success. :) > 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). Even if you selected the Linux slice? I've always been under the impression that LILO loaded into the bootsector too. If you have SysCommander then LILO is redundant anyway. > 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. Hm... > 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: The slice you are trying to start is beyond Cylinder 1024, ~500MB or so. You need to shrink your partitions and/or rearrange them so that the partitions you want to boot are below that mark. > A Quatum Wide-SCSI drive with 2.1 Gigabyte storage An Adapetec AHA2940UW > SCCI controller with its own BIOS embedded onto my Petium motherboard That should be supported, yes. > 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. Yes, that's your problem. What you will need to do is slice your disk so that a small slice resides < 500mb to boot DOS, the entire FreeBSD slice, then your extended partition. Something like so... 0-----------500--------------1gb--------------1.5gb---------------2gb <-DOS-><-----UNIX------------><------------DOS-DATA---------------> You are OK as long as the kernel and root filesystem lie below the mark. Your extended partition can be anywhere since it's not bootable anyway. > 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? It's a PC BIOS problem; you'd be in trouble no matter what OS you were trying to boot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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