From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 16:01:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29921 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:01:47 -0700 (PDT) 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 QAA29913 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA16621; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:01:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Sam Brown 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 On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Sam Brown wrote: > 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 The only problem with big disks is if you put the root partition above 1024 cylinders. FreeBSD doesn't handle "Enhanced" IDE drives differently than IDE drives. To the wd driver, they're all the same. > > > 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? What happens if you press F1? Does it repeat the menu or what?? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major