From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 1 20:08:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA26954 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:08:32 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA26939 ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:08:21 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA00352; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 11:08:07 +0800 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 11:08:04 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system In-Reply-To: <1426.802040922@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I don't know how you other folks did it, but I can't boot a > > freshly installed 2.0.5A disk. I go through all the steps, choosing > > logical choices, but then when it goes to reboot, I get "Missing > > operating system". > > Geometry correct? Hmmmm... I thought one of the reasons why I bought a SCSI drive was to avoid worrying about stuff like geometry and cylinder translations and what not. At least I never had to worry about it on any other computer with a SCSI disk until now. The older installers guessed it correctly, so I didn't touch the settings on this one. Somehow, I made it work last night, possibly because of two things: I reformatted the drive using an MS-DOS 6.2 utility disk (which then proceeded to allocate most/all of the drive as C:). Then I grabbed the updated boot disk and used that. I noticed that tell the Partition Editor to use the entire disk for FreeBSD now results in a different layout. Before, it automatically created two partitions: a small 22-block unused one and one large FreeBSD partition. Now it creates two unused partitions, one from 0-62 blocks and the other from 2108106-2109375 blocks (1270 blocks). The chunk in between is allocated to FreeBSD. Somehow, I still have 1029 megabytes (although I didn't note down the block boundaries the first time around). After partitioning the disk, a dialog box popped up saying "Too many active children of 'whole'" and an exit button. Hitting the exit button returns you to the previous installation screen. No apparent bad side-effects. Just to be safe, I told the installer to write out a boot manager. After unpacking the bin distribution for about the 7th time that evening ;-), I edited /etc/fstab to mount my NFS /usr/local and /usr/X11R6, rebooted... and it worked! I didn't touch any of the geometry settings throughout the whole process. More notes later... -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org