Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 08:48:12 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE/eIDE issues Message-ID: <199511170748.IAA26324@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199511170111.RAA02655@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 16, 95 05:11:16 pm
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> > the simple way to get it to work:: > > install a dos partition on the drive > (and nothing else) Do you mean it is required to do so? What if I don't have DOS? (I assume you mean creating a DOS partition with DOS's FDISK) > > 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 That drive has 1244/16/63. FreeBSD sysinstall partition editor suggested 933/32/42. I entered these figures into the CMOS labeled and installed FreeBSD (2.1.0-xxx) and still was unable to boot - as I said, it found the boot loader but stopped right at beginning of loading the kernel. Has the disklabel to be rewritten everytime the geometry is changed? I think so. > > > > > 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 > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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