Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 15:27:39 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, randy@zyzzyva.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE install Message-ID: <199603240427.PAA28510@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Error: C:6292878 > 1023 (BIOS Limit) >After much hair tearing I figured out that I needed to have the 1.2MB >floppy drive configured into the BIOS in order to successfully boot >from the install floppy. Even when there is not a 1.2MB floppy available >as I discovered later due to problem mentioned below. >BIOS is an Award rev4.51PG >Onboard Floppy >Onboard PCI IDE controllers for primary and secondary. >Secondary controller is disabled. Perhaps you are using the Award BIOS option to swap A: and B:. >I attempted to install a new set of boot blocks to FORCE_COMCONSOLE >with 'disklabel -B wd0' after recompiling the boot code from >FreeBSD-stable. The result nuked my partition table and MBR on >the drive forcing me to reinstall. When I installed the first time, >I chose the option to use "ALL" and to not be compatible with >future OS installs. The net effect seemed to be that the FreeBSD >partition begins with the first cylinder instead of an offset of >1 cyl. What did I do wrong here? Guidance appreciated. You used the "all" option, so you didn't "remain cooperative with any future possible operating systems on the drive(s)", including FreeBSD :-). FreeBSD-current has more details about the dangers of using "all": "This precludes the existance [sic] of any boot manager or other stuff in sector 0, since the BSD boot strap will live there". "other stuff" included the partition table in FreeBSD-2.1. Bruce
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