Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:52:36 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca> Cc: Dexter X <dexterx@montana.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Question Message-ID: <C125686C.0051B988.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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Hello,
Where is situated your FreeBSD partition ?
There is a limit with "normal BIOSes", where you can't boot from a partition beginning after the 1024th cylinder.
It seems that, when FreeBSD installs itself, it uses a wrong geometry setup, where the number of cylinders for your disk is higher than what you can see from the BIOS (the BIOS could see for example C/H/S = 1044/255/63 when FreeBSD by default sees
80??/32/63 - I don't have the exact figures).
When one step of FreeBSD boot runs (boot1 / boot2 / loader ?), there is a call to the BIOS with a number of cylinders which is too large, hence the "beep" of the BIOS.
The solution is to record the "right" geometry, as seen by the BIOS when starting the machine with LBA mode, and then use the <G>eometry option in the "fdisk" screen, where you set up the different partitions (wd0s1 / wd0s2 ...) in the hard disk where you
want to install FreeBSD. Write in the dialogue box the geometry as told by the BIOS, and finish the install as usual.
(this is at least how I installed FreeBSD on an Award BIOS at home)
TfH
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Dexter X wrote:
> This is probably a stupid question..but..here it goes...I installed
> FreeBSD 3.4 on a 2.5 gig partition on my HD. I made sure to make the
> partition a FreeBSD partition and all that good stuff...it installed fine,
> i didn't go through and install a bunch of the extra stuff yet, just wanted
> to get the basic system on my computer tonight....everything looked like it
> was goin great..dialed the internet fine during the install...then i got a
> couple errors something about fork somethin...i dont remember..it was
> during configuring tcl if i remember right...anyway so I decided to reboot
> and then just hit the sack..when i rebooted, it loaded up the bootmanager
> program, F1 for DOS, F2 for FreeBSD F1 was the default, so I hit
> F2 to boot up FreeBSD...and all it did was Beep..no matter what i hit all
> it did was Beep..so i had to boot up in windows and cant seem to get
> FreeBSD to boot :( If you have any ideas what i did wrong or how i can fix
> this please let me know..the errors i had while configuring tcl are no big
> deal, i'll deal with that later....not being able to boot up FreeBSD isn't
> too cool though..and i've tried reinstalling it a couple times
> also...well..thanks for your time :)
>
> Dex
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