From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 12:32:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10326 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.clever.net (qmailr@ns3.clever.net [207.15.222.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA10319 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0); 25 Oct 1996 19:51:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:51:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Sam Brown To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot mangler question. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Seems to have something to do with the LBA 2 gig drive. The 4 gig seagate i just installed worked. Setup 2 partitions 1-100 1-3900 meg. Perhaps Freebsd (unlike BSDi) doesn't like LBA? I'm just curious as i figgered with the bsdi experience i had the kernels would act pretty much the same, and i know for a fact the same partitioning scheme would have yielded a good result with BSDi 2.1 Sam On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Sam Brown wrote: > > > Straightforward install - 2.2-snap /eide lba mode drive (2 gig)/ p75 asus > > triton II, install from ftp looks great, single partition with auto config > > freebsd sub-partitions etc etc.. reboot, get something like > > > > f1 for bsd > > f? > > > > and it doesn't go from there. The partitions are there. any ideas? > > Did you push F1 to boot FreeBSD? (checking the obvious...) > > This is most likely a geometry problem. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > >