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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 03:31:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: John M Vinopal <banshee@abattoir.com>
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Subject: ESDI and 2.2
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I have a 313 meg ESDI drive connected to a WD1007A-WA2
controller that I should probally drop off a building.

But, I am trying to install freebsd on it.  I get one
of two problems when attempting to boot:

	a) bootblock prompt but it "Can't find /kernel" and
		"Can't find ?" 
	b) F1 BSD, press <F1>, F1 BSD, ad infinitum

The drive in question is 1224/15/35 native, or the controller
bios suggests 636/16/63 in translated sector mode.

I presently have everything installed and it mounts just dandy
but can't boot to save its life.  Disk is dedicated to freebsd,
I selected the "Dedicated" choice on install.

pfdisk notes that start (0,0,1) should be (0,1,1).

I was trying to do everything only with native disk numbers but 
that didn't work.  Should I enable translation, reformat, reinstall,
and then cry when it still doesn't work?

-j