From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 28 02:10:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23CE16A41F for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:10:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6211B43D45 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:10:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (tardiss.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[66.30.82.93]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20050828021009013005shule>; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:10:10 +0000 Message-ID: <43111CFB.3020000@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:10:03 -0400 From: Sean User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050817) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Dawson References: <431064F5.2020508@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827125557.05abd7d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> <4310D765.8030403@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827141554.04e436d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827145506.07b6c490@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050827145506.07b6c490@cobalt.antimatter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rsh.lists@comcast.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:10:11 -0000 Hi guys, Just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful suggestions. Played with things and got into the geometry idea as the possible cause. Did some more work, adjusting bios and geometry settings around the disk and just a few minutes ago after yet another go at installing the laptop just booted up! I in fact looked twice to make sure it booted on its own and not with the cd installed, it was not completely inserted and I still pulled the disk out completely to convince myself. What I finally did was to do a fdisk during a FixIT session and marked down the settings. The laptop bios would not take all six digits of the cylinders, so I entered five of them, adjusted the heads, and when setting up the disk during the install of FreeBSD set the geometry of the disk to match what fdisk reported and that seemed to do the trick. It is an older laptop so I guess that it was not designed with a 60G hard drive in mind. The previous drive was only 6G. Big difference. Again, the laptop has booted, and is currently doing some compiling. Hopefully the rest will go without problems, the laptop ran fine with the 6G drive so I am not expecting any other problems. The only real annoying part is that it is a real pain to find detailed info on this western digital drive, Thanks again, Sean