From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 22:10:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA15994 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.netvoyage.net (bko.interworld.net [206.124.240.233]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA15928 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bkogawa@localhost) by foo.netvoyage.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00642; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:13:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: foo.netvoyage.net: bkogawa owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:13:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" X-Sender: bkogawa@foo.netvoyage.net To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booteasy cannot boot from wd0 (first IDE disk) 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 Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Bryan Ogawa wrote: > > > > > I have a machine which has a new IDE drive (1.6Gig Seagate). I installed > > 2.1.5 on it, and have encountered the following problem: > > > > Booteasy can find the drive, but it cannot reach the boot prompt. > > This is a sure sign of a geometry problem on your first disk. Try > reinstalling, this time make a small DOS partition, then delete it in the > fdisk editor. Argh. Irritating, but unsurprising. Is there any way to change the geometry on the first disk without a reinstall? And is there any way to get the geometry correct without DOS? While I can reinstall pretty easily, I'd just as soon not if there's any other way to tell the drive about the correct drive geometry. Especially since I'm not sure I have real easy access to DOS. Thanks! bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/