Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:13:29 +0000 () From: Charlie ROOT <root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil> To: Jason Tanner <jt@wind.demon.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation problems. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950620180533.223B-100000@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <134@wind.demon.co.uk>
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I'll give you a bunch of suggestions!!!!
1. Backup all your data to tape --if possible.
2. Make your FreeBSD partition 400MEG and your DOS part 110MEG.
(At least try to set your FreeBSD to around 250M)
3. Make sure that your CDROM is being mounted when the kernel boots
-try a "fd(0,a)/kernel -c"
you should be able to view all of yur devices (including an attached
cdrom drive.
4. After your bootdisk can see the cdrom drive, then it will be able
to load the FreeBSD from the cdrom drive to you FreeBSD partition.
From what I got here in your message, you are correctly setting up your
hard drive, but not getting unix to load onto it.
Don't even attemp to reboot your PC and expect to see a unix prompt
until the installation software has transferred 15Megs or more of data to
your Hardrive, and says that it was (key words) "COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL"
Jeff Dean
(one of those guys who's reloaded unix
about 100 times --think im gettin good)
On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Jason Tanner wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I recently bought the FreeBSD CDROM from Walnut Creek. Version
> 2.0. (about a week ago in fact) and I am having a few problems
> with it and was wondering if you could offer any suggestions.
>
> I followed the installation instructions (I think).
>
> I used the provided dos utility to repartition my hard disk
> such that my DOS one was 401MB and the FreeBSD one would be
> 115MB.
>
> I created the boot floppy and cpio floppy. Set the disk
> geometry using the FDISK utility on the boot floppy to
> 1048 cyl 16 head 63 sect (= 516 MB) and edited the
> partition information as recommended in the instructions.
> I wrote out the boot record and the O/S boot selector
> stuff.
>
> I then used the DiskLabel utility to edit the slices
> and assign mount points.
>
> I then proceeded. Doing AltF2 revelaed no errors.
> When I booted I was presented with the F1 (DOS),
> F2 (FreeBSD) menu. F1 works fine butF2 simply access
> the hard disk and then returns to the menu.
>
> Rebooting with the boot floppy does usually take
> me back to the installation utility but after
> a variable number of attempts (when trying to
> investigate the problem) eventually caused an
> init failure then a panic message.
>
> My system configuration is:
>
> Gateway 2000 P5-90 (90Mhz Pentium)
> 16 MB Ram
> 516MB IDE Hard Disk.
> AMIBIOS
> Matrox Video Card
> 17" Monitor.
>
> The pertinent BIOS setup info is:
> Cyln Head Sect Size
> Drive C: Type AUTO-CONFIG 1048 16 63 516MB
> Drive C: Timeout 5 seconds
>
> IDE DMA Transfer Mode : Disabled
> IDE Multiple Sector mode : Disabled
> IDE LBA Translations : Enable
>
> DOS FDISK Info is:
>
> 1 fixed disk
> Partition Status Type VolumeLabel Mbytes System Usage
> C: 1 A PRIDOS FAT-DISK 401 FAT16 78%
> 2 Non-DOS 115 22%
>
> Jason.
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