From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 02:46:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15273 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15252 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA18861; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:46:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Edmund_L_Mulligan@armstrong.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install seems to work, then freezes. . . In-Reply-To: <85256639.00442CA0.00@mailex01.Armstrong.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 Edmund_L_Mulligan@armstrong.com wrote: > > When setting up the disk, I used the eometry option to make the geometry > > match the setting in the machine's BIOS. I'm not trying to run anything other > > than 2.2.6 on this machine, so I used the whole disk defaults. With or > without > > the boot manager, I the frozen cursor. Do NOT touch the diks geometry -- it's fake anyway. If you think it's wrong, create a small DOS partition on the disk first, boot the boot floppy, then delete it in the fdisk editor and create your FreeBSD slice. > > FWIW, the BIOS gives the options of "Standard CHS", "Extended CHS", "Logical > > Block", or "Auto Detected". Use Logical Block (LBA) mode. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message