Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 09:15:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Tiggie <kleung@frodi.cs.uop.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problem with installation Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950502082851.4899B-100000@uop.cs.uop.edu>
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My current setup is as follows: Intel Pentium 90 MHz chip on a Zeos Pentera System Adaptec 1522 SCSI-2 controller Quantum Empire 1080s (1 Gig SCSI-2 hard drive) two other IDE hard drives **the two other IDE harddrives have my MS-DOS stuff on it. And my SCSI drive is split in half with the first half also being a MS-DOS partition. The last half of the SCSI hard drive is going to be devoted to FreeBSD. Why? My FreeBSD environment is goning to be my UNIX learning environment for right now because I am still only a student in college. The MS-DOS partition is on cylinders 0 to 511 when the enhanced disk Geometery was turned off out of 1024. When I tried it with the enhanced disk geometery software supplied with the SCSI controller, MS-DOS was on cylinders 0 to 65 out of 130 cylinders. FreeBSD was then installed on the second half of the drive. The boot_flp and cpio_flp parts of the installation went okay. The problem starts after it asks the system to reboot. The boot manager on the first drive(IDE) deos respond with the option menu: F1 dos F5 disk2 <I think> default F? <then I press the F5 key> The system then responds with a message saying that there is no operating system. <This happen with standard disk geometery and enhanced geometery> I then reboot to the floppy disk, but at the boot: prompt I havetried putting other things such at the following to direct it toward the FreeBSD partition: sd(0,a)/kernel sd0(0,a)/kernel But it still can't locate the root directory. Going back over the procedure a few times, I checked the debug screen while the system process the info after you assigned the partitions and proceeded on with the installation. the debug screen would display: WARNING: Calculations don't match ... <something to that extent> Does this have anything to do with the problem. Kevin
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