From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 6: 2:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [199.199.159.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9790437B405 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 06:02:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by starfire.mn.org (8.8.5/1.1) id IAA19835; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 08:01:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 08:01:21 -0500 From: john@dexter.starfire.mn.org (John) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "missing operating system" again -- geometry? X-Mailer: Mutt 0.53 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I seem to be having the same problem that "Marius Kirschner" was having as documented in this list, but my lashup is an Adaptec 1540 with a Barracuda drive. The last entry in that thread was in April, and following the thread leads to a search error. To recap, this is an upgrade to 4.3, but in my case from 3.5.1, where the system was fine before the upgrade, and you can double-dang BET that I know by now that I've "set the freebsd partition to bootable" during the installation procedure. How do I determine the correct geometry is for a SCSI setup like this, where the system BIOS doesn't know about the drive? This system is currently down awaiting resolution of this problem after SEVERAL hours of consecutive attempts. Sure am glad I have gotten to the point where I have enough parts and pieces laying around to do this on a staging system. Darn hard to check the mailing lists if your only computer won't boot... -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message