Date: Fri, 2 Jun 95 13:35:11 EDT From: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) To: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system Message-ID: <9506021735.AA22578@squid.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9506021700.AA22388@squid.umd.edu>; from "Fred Cawthorne" at Jun 2, 95 1:00 pm
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> The new install got the wrong geometry even when I had FreeBSD 2.0 on > the entire disk... Perhaps there was a problem with the stuff that > an old fdisk created??? I don't remember if I ever installed with an NCR > controller before. (I used to have an Adaptec 1542CF on here...) > So, maybe my NCR scsi bios is messing things up??? > Are you guys sure that the user setting of the geometry thing (i.e. G in > the fdisk screen) is working properly?? > > Fred. > > Hmmm. I guess there was something funny going on with translation. I just tried again with a small dos partition on the disk and it appears to boot properly. Anyway, the method of making a dos partition on the disk so that fdisk gets the geometry seems to work fine... Perhaps I was doing something wrong when I tried this before... Fred.
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