Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:14:28 -0400 From: "A. G. Nair" <agn_nair@yahoo.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org>, <mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: FreeBSD and OnTrack DDO (re-sending earlier message in plain-text format) Message-ID: <025801c10e87$d3c40fa0$7ab50241@jrsycty1.nj.home.com>
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Hi, Sorry for re-sending this mail. I was not aware that the earlier mail I sent was in HTML format. Probably that's why nobody saw it. Hope this works. AGN ----- Original Message ----- From: A. G. Nair To: questions@freebsd.org ; mobile@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 1:03 AM Subject: FreeBSD and OnTrack DDO Hi, I've sent a mail earlier with the same problem but didn't get any reply... So trying again with a more specific version of the problem. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 on my machine (laptop) which has OnTrack DDO(Dynamic Drive Overlay) installed on the hard drive. I tried all kinds of combinations at the boot prompt but it always says -- Not ufs Not ufs No /boot/loader The documentation says FreeBSD is compatible with DDO, but I'm unable to make it work. Also in the archives I've found 2 or 3 questions regarding this but no answers. So I think, this has to be a bug unless someone can tell me otherwise. My situation is as described below-- I've a new blank 20GB hard drive installed on my laptop. Since it's blank and there is no data, I get to re-partition, re-format and play around with all combinations. I'm trying to get just FreeBSD(nothing else is in the hard drive except DOS) work with DDO. I need DDO because my BIOS won't recognize beyond 8.4GB of the hard-drive (I've the latest version of BIOS installed). I am not going beyond the 1024th cylinder. The whole FreeBSD partition is well below the 1024 cylinder limit. The disk geometry reported by FreeBSD fdisk is same as the one reported by Partition Manager. So no problem there also. Or is there something else? I also tried Boot-Easy, OS-BS and XOSL as boot manager. No luck. If I remove DDO and boot, FreeBSD sees the full 20GB. So ideally, I don't need to use DDO if I am using just FreeBSD. But unfortunately I also need to install Windows on the machine. So I've to find a way to get FreeBSD to exist with DDO and the documentation says it is compatible. I've almost given up all hope on making this work. (I tried Red Hat Linux and I've to tell you, it's much worse than this. It doesn't even install.) Does anyone have any experience in getting FreeBSD installed and working on a hard drive with DDO?? There must be someone out there, who has worked on this part of the installer.... Maybe He/She can tell why this is not a bug. Am I missing something??? Please please reply and let me know. Any suggestions will be a great help...... Thanks in advance, AGNair PS: This is how FreeBSD fdisk looks FDisk Disk name: ad0 Disk Geometry: 2584 cyls/240 Heads/63 Heads = 39070080 Sectors(19077MB) Offset Size(KB) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags -63 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 7528 15119 ad0s1 2 fat 6 15120 3084480 6184079 ad0s2 3 freebsd 165 C 6184080 16442968 39070016 - 6 unused 0 View of Ranish Partition Manager on the disk is as below: Hard Disk 1 19077 Mbytes[2583 cylinders x 240 heads x 63 sectors ] Using LBA # Type Row File System Type Starting[CHS] Ending[CHS] Partition Size[KB] 0 MBR Master Boot Record 0x0x1 0x0x1 0 1 Pri Unused 0x0x2 0x0x63 31 2 Pri 1 DOS FAT-16 0x1x1 0x239x63 7,528 3 >Pri 2 FreeBSD, BSD/386 1x0x1 408x239x63 3,084,480 4 Pri Unused 409x0x1 2583x238x63 16,442,968 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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