From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 17 01:50:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA03209 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA03202 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:50:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA23364; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:50:28 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21147; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:50:27 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA10625; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:36:20 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603170936.KAA10625@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Booting problems To: adf@fl.net.au (Andrew Foster) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:36:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960318023546.00a647d0@mail.fl.net.au> from "Andrew Foster" at Mar 17, 96 04:35:46 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)