Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:14:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Carl Koster <ckoster@ix.netcom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960410191217.938C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604100432.VAA21931@dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com>
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Carl Koster wrote: > +AMD486-120MHz > +Two IDE drives (installing fbsd on slave drive) > +EIDE controller card (manufactured by SIIG with on-board BIOS) > > I am installting from a DOS partition. My distribution came from Walnut > Creek on CD. > > My goal is to dedicate the slave drive to fbsd and use a boot disk to > get into fbsd. Installation of the files > proceeds without a hitch. OK... > When I reebot using the fbsd boot disk I type > > wd(1,a)/kernal > > at the prompt and the system just hangs. It doesn't seem to try to > access the slave drive. You misspelled kernel :-) If that doesn't work, try erasing the partition, put a small DOS partition on there, and install FreeBSD over that partition (delete it when you allocate the FreeBSD partition in FDISK). > I have verified drive geometry and it looks the same in fbsd and BIOS. The above should give the proper geometry. If your second disk is >520mb, you may need to make two partitions, one below 1024 cylinders for the root partition, and another for the rest. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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