From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 10:11:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05822 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:11:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05802 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:11:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id KAA04135 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:11:29 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:11:28 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 "Read error" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I made two slices and everything seems to work now. However, I would like to have all disk dedicated to FreeBSD, rather then seen F1 BSD F2 BSD prompts every time I reboot the machine. Any ideas? -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Jan Koum wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am installing 2.2.6 on the system which before had 2.2.5 (not an >upgrade, plain new install). The system is a PII, 64RAM and an 8455MB IBM >(model DHEA 38461) EIDE hard disk. After everything is installed, I get >"Read error" > I tried different options for the hard disk BIOS settings (LBA on, >off, different FPIO and PIO modes), as well as trying to install several >times with different disk layouts. I usually did 256M for SWAP, 500 for /, >2Gig for /usr, 2Gig for /usr/home, 2Gig for /usr/local and the rest for >/var mount point. Any clues on this matter would be helpful. The "Read >error" line is the 4th from the top if you do "strings boot.flp | more". > >-- Yan > >Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want >www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message