Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:46:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Edmund_L_Mulligan@armstrong.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install seems to work, then freezes. . . Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980708024506.22542i-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <85256639.00442CA0.00@mailex01.Armstrong.com>
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On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 Edmund_L_Mulligan@armstrong.com wrote: > > When setting up the disk, I used the <G>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
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