From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 00:08:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA03351 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 23:53:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA03328 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 23:53:05 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA09380; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:52:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA06921; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:52:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA14268; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:43:42 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506080643.IAA14268@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: installation problem To: andy@anigma.win.net Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:43:41 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20@anigma.win.net> from "Mr. Andrew Micheals" at Jun 7, 95 03:35:30 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1370 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Mr. Andrew Micheals wrote: > > Recently purchased the FreeBSD ver 2.0 and have > experienced an installation problem in that upon doing the > installation, rebooting then pointing on the boot manager, I get an > error message, saying (error loading operating system). > 1. Boot?=No Type=Primary 'big'DOS (>32MB) > Phys=(c0/h2/s18..c575/h106/s22) Sector=(63..1510109) > Size=737 MB, 575 Cylinders + 104 tracts =5 Sectors > > 2. Boot?=Yes Type=FreeBSD/Net/386BSD > Phys=9c575/h106/s23..c1023/h113/s19)Sectors > (1510110..4216171) > Size=1321 MB, 1032 Cylinders + 6 tracts +20 Sectors The error points to an inconsistency between the ideas of BIOS/DOS and FreeBSD about the disk geometry. The numbers above look somewhat suspicious (113 heads?), too. What is the geometry (number of cylinders, heads (aka traks) / cylinder, sectors / track) your BIOS is assuming? At the very least, you should be able to get this information either from the BIOS setup screen, or by some ``disc doctor'' tool under DOS. Make sure you are using exactly the same geometry when installing FreeBSD (even in case where the FreeBSD installation program might suggesting you something else). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)