Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:11:28 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 "Read error" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980327100942.3474A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980326165613.18500A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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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
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