From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 02:48:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B5C16A401 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:48:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: from web58106.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58106.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1359A13C455 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 66032 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Apr 2007 02:48:07 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=knz3ZrDsVKetPn+LkG6Iq78UjURZYJJK8n6lKwrnLOE2ayKvEO3kG4igN1zB+l7I27mTNlf/0jMXZ6aRMceBcQhYRY4+3oFXM+KsVibJR4eNDX11l+Ix2RUeIgUWU9owQh97APUscEV7rXWN1HfQoxKtCi8OQ9BVcK4qBeg2kdE=; X-YMail-OSG: GgW6FGsVM1kdp8WDDu1MlvCTkKL1m1f.Fma5npBm4upZI6YHuZfiKmtrfA8dODDK31EcaHXSd6EJzV8P4QIUjPT_2O1iAqjDdS6jMYXLt1K7tJhD0Mfdhv220FVmXpvz Received: from [131.191.24.2] by web58106.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:48:07 PDT Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:48:07 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410065434.026823e8@mail.computinginnovations.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <336129.65679.qm@web58106.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Boot failure after installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:48:08 -0000 Is there a way to run the "FDISK" tool outside of the freebds installer? How do I change the disk configuration without reinstalling freebsd every @#$%@#$% time? I really want to set up a FreeBSD server and appreciate the learning experience, but it's way past the point where I should have switched to an OS that will actually run on my client's server. If I don't get it going tonight, I'm going to install the first Linux distribution that says "Hey, Sailor"... =8-0 BTW, I burned a freeSBIE 2.0.1 Live CD, but have no idea what to do with it. Yes, I am pathetically clueless. Thanks for your patience! Derek Ragona wrote: One other thing that might be happening is if the geometry of the drive isn't allowing an extended translation because of the age of your hardware, you may need to keep the boot partition, that is the entire boot partition (not talking slices here) within the first 1024 cylinders. In the partition tool in sysinstall you can change the display to show different units, and one of those will be cylinders. The 1024 cylinder limit is from older BIOS translations and if the boot partition extended beyond 1024 the system will give that same error you are getting. With older hardware you may need to use multiple partitions instead of slices. You can have 4 partitons on a drive (4 is hardcoded in the partition table size and a location) so you can add additional partitions for swap and /usr if you want. Any partitions you use for filesystems like /usr the boot manager will see and offer to boot them. They won't boot of course. Swap partitions are ignored by the boot manager. Otherwise, I'd suspect it is a problem with the 6.2 you are using then. If you try with a boot within the 1024 (I wouldn't push that to the limit I'd say try like 950 cylinders) then I would try an earlier version such as 6.1 or 6.0. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. --------------------------------- It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.