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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:48:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
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Subject: Re: Installing FBSD alone on 2GB SCSI disk
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Randy DuCharme wrote:

> I hope this isn't pathetically stupid... I've successfully installed the 
> OS on many machines in shared OS situations and alone on smaller drives 
> but this one sort of has me stumped.  I've been trying to install FBSD 
> on a single 2.05GB Quantum SCSI II hard disk. The controller is an 
> Adaptec 1542CF.  I've tried both disabling and enabling large disk 
> translation.  I wanted to install it using the entire drive rather than 
> with a partition entry, but have done it both ways.  In all cases on 
> installation it comes up saying the drive geometry is invalid.  It then 
> defaults to 2050/64/32.  Whether I accept these settings, or change them 
> (1023/64/32 was reported using pfdisk) I get all the way through the 
> installation and on reboot I get...
> 
> Boot:
> Error: C:1040 > 1023 (BIOS limit)

Oops.  Somehow the bootblocks think your root partition is above 1024
cylinders.  This may be related to your geometry problem.  

What you should do is:

1)  Use DOS fdisk to:
	a)  blow away the FreeBSD partition.
	b)  make a small DOS partition on that disk.
2)  Boot using boot.flp.
	a)  In the fdisk editor, delete the DOS partition you just made
and install FreeBSD as before.

That should help sysinstall figure out the proper geometry.

Is there anything else (other OSs) on the disk?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major