Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:04:25 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: David Anderson <partek@indecent.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller Message-ID: <6511.809816665@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:46:58 CDT." <Pine.LNX.3.91.950830152332.6417A-100000@system1.indecent.com>
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> FreeBSD was on a 515MB HD with 1048 cylinders.. I tried it with LBA mode > on and off. The FreeBSD partitions were at the front of the disk, so > being past cylinder 1024 shouldn't have been a problem. Well, that's still not assured if you create one big root partition; then it's sort of a guess as to where it's going to stick the kernel image. It sounds to me like the BIOS is unable, for one reason or another, to read your kernel image. That's why it hangs. You should also definitely have LBA mode off. Try this (with LBA off): Install DOS on just a small (5MB or so) chunk at the beginning. You may find this chunk useful in the future anyway since you can put DOS based diagnostics and such there. Now install FreeBSD on the rest of the space, allowing it to get the geometry from the DOS partition. Let me know what happens. Jordan
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