Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:03:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!! Message-ID: <XFMail.20011018150324.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAICEHCDLAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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On 18-Oct-2001 Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Micke, > > I've never had to fiddle with disk geometry before. Should I be changing > the arguments to newfs during install? And if so, how should I determine > what values to use? Or does this go down to an even lower level? Check what BIOS thinks is right and make sure those values for CHS are used when installing. No voodoo involved:) /M > > Also - a question to whoever: LINT and GENERIC show support for AIC7xxx > cards, but is the AIC7899 perhaps too new and not yet supported? > Dunno, really. But in my world AIC7xxx includes all up to AICFFFF Good luck! /Micke > Boot still won't! > > Patrick. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Micke Josefsson >> Sent: 18 October 2001 13:03 >> To: Patrick O'Reilly >> Cc: FreeBSD Question List >> Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!! >> >> >> My guess is that the geometry of the disk is not what the BIOS >> thinks it is. Or >> that the the geometry during install is not identical to what the >> BIOS thinks. >> Or some combination of the two:) >> >> >> /M >> On 18-Oct-2001 Patrick O'Reilly wrote: >> > OK - I'm stumped - and probably doing something real dumb... >> > >> > I've installed 4.3 from the CD1 onto an Intel Tupelo MB, dual processor, >> > with 2 18G Cheetah SCSI disks under AIC 7899 onboard chipset. Nothing >> > fancy - just plain standard installation. (512M swap slice and >> 17.5G / slice >> > on Disk 0, didn't do Disk 1 yet) >> > >> > Now she won't boot! I tried with the standard MBR - stops >> saying "missing >> > operating system". I tried with FreeBSD Boot manager - I get: >> > ------------------------------- >> > F1 FreeBSD >> > F5 Drive 1 >> > >> > Default: F1 _ >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > but its dead - pressing F1 or Enter (or anything else) yields >> NO RESPONSE. >> > >> > Someone - PLEASE klobber me with the clue stick :) >> > >> > Patrick. >> > >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> ---------------------------------- >> Michael Josefsson, MSEE >> mj@isy.liu.se >> >> This message was sent by XFMail >> running on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE >> ---------------------------------- >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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