Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:36:19 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: adf@fl.net.au (Andrew Foster) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting problems Message-ID: <199603170936.KAA10625@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960318023546.00a647d0@mail.fl.net.au> from "Andrew Foster" at Mar 17, 96 04:35:46 pm
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As Andrew Foster wrote: > Hi, > > I've just put an Adaptec 2940 in my system, and I've got this problem : > > Normally boot from sd0. > However, when I do this with this controller I just get cycled between the > > F1 BSD > Default: F? > > prompt. Hitting F1 takes me back to this Default: prompt. Geometry hassles. Make your BIOS and FreeBSD installation geometry for the drive consistent. (In particular, don't use any geometry figures from your drive reference manual.) If this is a FreeBSD-only system, consider leaving out the boot manager, and using the ``dangerously dedicated'' mode. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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