From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 4 17:18:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA20329 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 May 1996 17:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unixg.ubc.ca (mail.unixg.ubc.ca [137.82.27.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA20320 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 17:18:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UBC.ubc.ca (port20.annex2.net.ubc.ca [137.82.220.120]) by unixg.ubc.ca (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA24875 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 17:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960505001507.006c8acc@pop.unixg.ubc.ca> X-Sender: wtamagi@pop.unixg.ubc.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 17:15:07 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Wayne Tamagi Subject: boot up problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello I am having problems with installing Freebsd. I have installed it many times and have come up unsuccessful throughout the job. My IDE drive is partitioned and I have Windows 95 on the C drive and I did an install from C drive onto my D drive. The D drive is dedicated for Freebsd. I stripped down my configuration settings for all my hardware. I have been doing a minimal installation. I've read some troubleshooting and it states it is likely it is the disk geometry. So I checked it after the first installation and it was wrong so I set it up to the assummed settings. I went into CMOS to find it. I have an IBM OS/2 IDE drive 730MB. In CMOS it showed the geometry as 1416/16/63 (cylinders/heads/sectos per track). I used these setting and re-installed FreeBsd and bootup and the results were even worse! At the bootup manager when I enter F2 it did not go to: >>FreeBSD Boot... Use hd(1,a)/kernel to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed etc... My computer would just hang and I can see the hard drive is running constantly (red light on front is on). Can anyone advise me what I can do? Wayne