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Subject: Re: Boot manager problems
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:01:06 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199509180737.RAA16494@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 18, 95 05:07:39 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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> 
> Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying:
> > > configuration and then reboot.  The boot manager menu comes up with only one
> > > choice - DOS.  I thought at this point I was supposed to be able to choose
> > > FreeBSD as well as DOS.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Sounds like you have something funny going on...
> 
> > > 1 GB WD IDE hard drive (none of which is being used for FBSD)
> >   ^^^^
> >   It sounds like you didn't specify a DOS/BIOS conformant disk
> > geometry. Divide the number of sectors reported from the autoprobe
> > during boot through 2048. This gives you the number of cylinders
> > you should use. Then specify 64 heads, 32 sectors.
> 
> That's actually totally off beam; there's no FBSD on that disk, Chris 8)

Oh yes, I overlooked, sorry. Too early in the morning :-)

> 
> > > 340 MB WD IDE hard drive (60 MB partioned to FBSD and mounted as "/")
> > > 210 MB WD IDE hard drive (16 MB for FBSD swap partition, rest as a FBSD
> > > partition and mounted as "/usr")
> 
> Hmm. Three IDE disks.  How are you doing this? Are they parhaps on your
> secondary IDE controller?  The BIOS knows nothing about this port when it
> comes to booting, so if that's the case, that's your answer.
> 
> > The swap is a little bit tough, though. Make your / partition 40MB
> > and give a little bit more to swap (36MB).
> 
> Spot on there; 16M is a good size for swap on a 4M machine; I'd recommend
> between 2 and 4 times your RAM in swap.
> 
> > >  -> Thayer York
> > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> 
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de