From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 27 06:13:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA24461 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 06:13:12 -0800 Received: from inforamp.net (inforamp.net [198.53.144.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA24455 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 06:13:10 -0800 Received: from ts5-06.inforamp.net by inforamp.net (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA23745; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 09:12:06 +0500 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 09:12:05 +0500 Message-Id: <9502271412.AA23745@inforamp.net> X-Sender: pstupp@inforamp.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: pstupp@inforamp.net (Perry A. Stupp) Subject: FreeBSD Loads but will not boot. content-length: 1499 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Having had no success getting Linux on my machine I decided to try FreeBSD. I was encouraged when the installation process allowed me to go all the way through. The disk was split and the operating system installed. Unfortunately when I went to boot I received the following panic message "Can't handle 32 heads from partition table (Controller value 16 restored), cannot mount root", and then the system reboots. I thought perhaps that it was my pci controller (being 32 bit) and I removed it only to find the same problem. I changed the enhanced IDE settings in the bios to ignore large disks (>540 MB) since this is the appropriate setting for other unix systems on this machine. To make a long story short, here is a list of my equipment, any help would be greatly appreciated. I really want to get some type of unix on my machine so that I can possibly contribute in the near future. ACER Pentium 90Mhz, 16MB RAM, PCI 810MB Conner HD running PCI PCI NITRO - Video Card BTW, I used a utility that I received with Linux called fips. This program allowed me to change the size of my dos partition without having to fdisk it. It comes with many warnings but worked fine on my machine. I did not see any mention of it in your installation documentation. Perhaps you may want to look into it. I probably saved me a great deal of grief. Sincerely, Perry A. Stupp Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!