From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 20 22:16:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA09080 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 22:16:36 -0800 Received: from kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA09071 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 22:16:34 -0800 From: krnlhkr@mcs.com Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by kitten.mcs.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA08870; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 00:16:03 -0600 Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Tue, 21 Feb 95 00:24 CST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 00:24 CST Subject: Re: 2.0 install probs To: rdabney@lanl.gov (R. N. Dabney), hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk <---- Begin Included Message ----> I've been attempting to install 2.0 on a SCSI drive attached to a Future Domain 950 (yeah, yeah, I know they suck, but it is the only supported ctlr I have). When I write the MBR in FDISK, I get a dialog box "Invalid Argument" and at the bottom of the screen "Disk doesn't have MBR", "writedisklabel: MSP with no BSD part". The geometry reported by the startup probe is 2405 cyls, 6 hds, 72 secs and 507 MB. I tried changing the geometry in FDISK to 32 secs, 64 hds and 507 cyls. The SCSI drive is the second drive, the first is a IDE which I was able to FDISK and LABEL but with a really small slice. I can write a boot record to the SCSI (I suppose, no complaints). Any pointers would be appreciated. <---- End Included Message ----> I'm a bit confused on which drive you are trying to write the MBR to, so I will assume this: 1) Your first drive (C: in DOS terms) is the IDE. 2) Your second drive (D:) is the SCSI. 3) You have been trying to write an MBR to the SCSI drive. The MBR - Master Boot Record - is only written to (or needs only to be written to) the first disk. The BSD MBR will allow you to boot from the SCSI drive since it loads off the first disk, but lets you pick which disk to boot from. The partition tables are written to both disks. If you can write the MBR to the first (IDE) disk and partition and label both disks successfully, you shouldn't have a problem. -Louis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis J. Giliberto, Jr. ! Support the Free Software Foundation krnlhkr@mcs.com ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------