From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 3 05:51:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA11749 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 05:51:13 -0800 Received: from uu10.psi.com (uu10.psi.com [38.8.4.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA11742 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 05:51:11 -0800 Received: by uu10.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA23989 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 95 08:47:52 -0500 Received: from cc:Mail by uu1507.sungardfs.com id AA791829483 Fri, 03 Feb 95 08:38:03 Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 08:38:03 From: "Bloom, Jim" Message-Id: <9501037918.AA791829483@uu1507.sungardfs.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Boot Problems Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am having problems booting FreeBSD 2.0 (CDROM from Walnut Creek CDROM). I am able to boot with the boot floppy and run FDISK & DISKPART successfully. When fsck is run, the disk driver goes into a loop saying that it is waiting for an operation to start. I also ended up with my DOS partition on the beginning of the disk being corrupted. When the system is booting, it detects the hard drive correctly and prints out the disk configuration matching the one stored in the BIOS. It also prints out a message saying that the partition table indicates the disk has 64 heads and that that BIOS number is going to override the partition table. The relevent parts of the system configuration are that I have an on-board enhanced IDE disk controller, 1.08 GB Western Digital hard drive (2210(?) cyl, 16 head, 63 sectors/track according to the BIOS). Any help with resolving would be appreciated. Jim Bloom jbloom@sungardfs.com