Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:57:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Schwartz <steve@server.gslink.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Up Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960611175344.6112C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960611064223.23188A-100000@server.gslink.com>
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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Steve Schwartz wrote: > > > I have a 486/75Mhz with > > > 8mb of ram. My brothers is a 486/66 8mb ram. I am confused what is > > > going on. I am going to upgrade my computer to a Pentium 150mhz 16mb ram > > > June 20th, but I want to install FreeBSD too much, and can't wait. I > > > think it would be neat to fool around with, and help me at my job. > > When I stuck the FreeBSD boot disk in my computer just froze. When I put > BSDI's boot disk in got the following message: > > Warning, CMOS geometry for C: is mapped, too many heads > Mapped Geometry: 63 sectors 64 heads 787 cylinders > Drive geometry: 63 sectors 16 heads 3148 cylinders The boot floppy can deal with this. > I have on my C: a 1.6 Western Digital with 3 partitions. A 900MB (Win95) > 250(Empty for Unix/Linux) and 350(NT4.0) Any way you roll it you are going to end up with an unbootable partition. All bootable partitions must be completely below 500MB or so. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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