Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 17:12:44 -0500 From: "Norris, Toby T" <Toby.Norris@HSV.Boeing.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Installation Problems Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Boeing%l=XCH-HSV-01-970521221244Z-19625@xch-hsv-01p.hv.boeing.com>
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I am having a hard time installing FreeBSD. I have made many installation attempts and I continuously get the "missing operating system" error message during boot. I have used the pfdisk utility to see the disk geometries of the two hard disks that I have: 2 EIDE disks, 2 GB and 3GB respectively. The 2GB disk is all dos, and the second 3GB disk has 2GB for dos and 1GB for FreeBSD. The disk geometry for both disks was different when displayed from pfdisk versus FreeBSD. Using the G option during the install procedure, I changed the second disk geometry to match what pfdisk displayed. There was only a small change, one cylinder less for FreeBSD. That worked fine. However, for the first disk, there was a bigger difference, involving different numbers of cylinders, heads, and sectors. When I tried to change the geometry with the G option, I got I warning stating that the partition was not on a track boundary or something to that effect. What does this mean, and can I proceed??? I do not want to risk loosing any data on my first disk dos partition. All I need on that disk is the boot manager which seems to install fine. It just won't recognize my FreeBSD partition on disk 2 even though the disk geometry for disk 2 matches the pfdisk geometry exactly. Does the geometry for every disk on my system, even non FreeBSD disks have to have the same geometry as displayed by pfdisk? I would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks, Toby Norris
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