From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 10:50:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24544 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:50:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sol.harbor.ab.ca (sol.harbor.ab.ca [198.161.82.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24527 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:50:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mathezer@harbor.ab.ca) Received: from gemini (gemini.harbor.ab.ca [10.10.0.12]) by sol.harbor.ab.ca (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id LAA28655 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:50:44 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:50:44 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Mathezer X-Sender: mathezer@gemini To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: upgd 2.2.6->2.2.8 C:2058 > 1023 FROM FLOPPY! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, this is making less and less sense to me. I tried to upgrade from 2.2.6 to 2.2.8 today and have had a host of problems. The long story follows. The short story is that I get the BIOS error when booting from floppy both a 2.2.6 and 2.2.8 floppy which both previously worked. All I want to do now is reinstall. HELP! This is a P90 with 64M of memory, a relatively old 2940 (it does have the CTRL-A for BIOS bit though) and two 4G hard drives. I have installed Solaris X86 2.4, FreeBSD and NT on this machine and all were coexisting happily. I have on my first disk a 150M Solaris partition for its root, a 200M FreeBSD partition containing a 94M / and the rest for swap. The rest of disk 1 is NT. Disk 2 contains 2 approx 2G partitions for FreeBSD and Solaris. Now, here is what happened in order. I managed to bump into a few things I think. #1 Boot from 2.2.8 floppy, select upgrade and choose pretty much all the distributions except for source. I connect to the FTP server and start copying files no problem. At about 90% of bin I get a disk full error. I swear about the upgrade not checking this first and try to figure out how / could have grown that much since 2.2.6 I booted a 2.2.6 fixit floppy, fsck'd, mounted my root and realized that /tmp/ had a bunch of junk I didn't need. OK, I think, no big deal, I clean up, reboot and try again. #2 This time I get into the third or fourth distribution like info or something like that. Again, I get a disk full error. I boot the fixit floppy and fsck and mount root. After a lot of poking around I discover that the upgrade apparently went and copied all of the files into /mnt. It made a /usr under /mnt but didn't mount my /usr disk there, rather it copied all of the files into my / slice. OK, I think, I'll clean this mess up and try once more but only upgrade with the bin dist. I cleaned up /mnt and not really thinking, I type reboot at the Fixit prompt. This actually core dumps. No big deal, I hit the reset button. #3 Now when I reboot, both my 2.2.6 and 2.2.8 floppy comes up with a C:2058 > 1023 (BIOS limit) error message and refuses to boot. Why is this happening when booting from floppy (why should it care)? What changed? I didn't change anything. LBA mode has always been turned on for this controller. 2058 is the size of the first partition on drive 2. Solaris and NT still boot just fine. fdisk /mbr doesn't help I am booting from floppy - what gives? At this point I don't really care. I'll install 2.2.8 from scratch. To do that however the floppy has to boot. How do I get this fixed? Thanks for any help -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message