Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:48:16 +0200 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Linux (and bootblocks) Message-ID: <37931080.C5917A44@giovannelli.it> References: <XFMail.990718043632.conrads@home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4> <19990719134536.K65436@freebie.lemis.com> <19990719095612.41282@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990719172747.A72625@freebie.lemis.com>
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> >> *whole* lot better than UnixWare, but so far everything has been.
> >
> > Wow, I tried that yesterday, it took _hours_!
>
> But it worked at the end? It didn't like my Dell Latitude at all.
I installed it in 10/15 minutes, but when it reboots (and I think I was
finished everything ) ... the hell begin :-)
dselect is , like you said, an expert stuff only... and even if I am not
a newbie anymore I was quite in bad waters when I have to choose the
pkgs... Not because I don't know how to install, but because the dselect
interface is , IMHO, bad and cryptic...
I'd like to open another topic:
Why bootblock won't boot any Linux installation except Debian ?
I am now at seaside, with a modem and I can report my configs...
This is my drive :
seaside:/tmp# fdisk -t wd0
******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1247 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1247 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT)
start 63, size 8193087 (4000 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 509/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 8193150, size 8177085 (3992 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 510/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1018/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 131,(Linux filesystem)
start 16370235, size 3389715 (1655 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1019/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
start 19759950, size 273105 (133 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
So there are 4 primary partitions, but the boot block which boot0cfg -B
wd0 installs is not able to boot linux other than debian 2.1.
I have tried:
Redhat 5.2, 6.0
Suse 6.1
Slackware 3.6
TurboLinux 2.0
Caldera 1.3
Stampede Linux
Debian 2.1
(a little OT to say thanks to Jordan for been able to make the best
install I have seen. FreeBSD is far better than all these , it's easy
and simple...)
(another little OT: all this distributions come for FREE on Italian
computer magazines. Jordan can you contact them, I can give you the
address and eventually translate what you want to say them, for saying
that sometimes they can also tried to distribuite a copy of FreeBSD ?)
But let's return to the main topic...
Every installation use the same partitions (the last 2) but only Debian
seems to be able to reboot and restart...
Is it possible that it is something related to the HD cyls where the
Linux kernel finish during installation ?? Debian is the one that
install less thing at the begin...
When I press F3 (F3 Linux) at the boot start the computer only beeps and
the nothing starts...
--
Regards...
Gianmarco
"Unix expert since yesterday"
http://www.giovannelli.it
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