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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Carl Koster <ckoster@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Installation problem
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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