From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 16:28:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29441 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA29436 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:28:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA03979; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:27:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:27:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Wes Peters cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubled FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: <199611151713.JAA20127@resnet.uoregon.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Wes Peters wrote: > Actually, you were right the first time. Apparently the bootblocks have > the location of the boot code embedded in them somehow (probably when > disklabel writes the bootblocks). When I finally re-installed using the > *real* disk geometry, rather than the default lame-brain "LBA" mode, > everything worked fine. I've got 2.1.5-RELEASE installed on the machine > now, running off a WD21000 (wd0), with a WD21600 (wd2) for storage. > This is going to be the CVS server for my workgroup at work; a very > important machine. Alright! I was really getting strained to come up with excuses :) > Thanks for the help. I nominate Doug as "Keeper of the FreeBSD > Questions flame." ;^) The Core Team has warned me that they want to nominate me for FreeBSD Sainthood, so I'd better be careful :) [ humble mode re-activated ] ... but I think I'll go back to reading mail now before I get too caught up in the moment. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major