Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:01:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, tyork@vt.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager problems Message-ID: <199509180701.JAA08746@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <199509180737.RAA16494@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 18, 95 05:07:39 pm
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> > Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > > configuration and then reboot. The boot manager menu comes up with only one > > > choice - DOS. I thought at this point I was supposed to be able to choose > > > FreeBSD as well as DOS. Any thoughts? > > Sounds like you have something funny going on... > > > > 1 GB WD IDE hard drive (none of which is being used for FBSD) > > ^^^^ > > It sounds like you didn't specify a DOS/BIOS conformant disk > > geometry. Divide the number of sectors reported from the autoprobe > > during boot through 2048. This gives you the number of cylinders > > you should use. Then specify 64 heads, 32 sectors. > > That's actually totally off beam; there's no FBSD on that disk, Chris 8) Oh yes, I overlooked, sorry. Too early in the morning :-) > > > > 340 MB WD IDE hard drive (60 MB partioned to FBSD and mounted as "/") > > > 210 MB WD IDE hard drive (16 MB for FBSD swap partition, rest as a FBSD > > > partition and mounted as "/usr") > > Hmm. Three IDE disks. How are you doing this? Are they parhaps on your > secondary IDE controller? The BIOS knows nothing about this port when it > comes to booting, so if that's the case, that's your answer. > > > The swap is a little bit tough, though. Make your / partition 40MB > > and give a little bit more to swap (36MB). > > Spot on there; 16M is a good size for swap on a 4M machine; I'd recommend > between 2 and 4 times your RAM in swap. > > > > -> Thayer York > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[ > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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