Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:37:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> To: U9419829@queens-belfast.ac.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation problems with bsd 2.1.0 Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960723133421.150178E-100000@homer21.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <009A5C29.137091C0.7@v2.qub.ac.uk>
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Paul, I remember reading somewhere (perhaps on this list a few times) that you can't boot to FreeBSD from a partition that is beyond 500Mb. I would make your DOS partition 10Mb, then you won't have this problem... (personally, I think this limitation is DOS's fault.) Ken Marsh On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 U9419829@queens-belfast.ac.uk wrote: > I am trying to install freebsd 2.1 from dos partition > since bsd cannot recognise my eide 8x aztech cdrom. I > have set the following partitions on my adaptec 4.3 Gb > scsi2 hard disks (controller aha-2940 Ultra wide).... > > 1 Gb dos partition > 2 Gb bsd partition (will be mounted on /) > 1 Gb bsd partition (will be mounted on /usr) > remainder as swap file > > However, I keep getting the error message whn writing > partition information to drive sd0 > " sysinstall: read: input/output error > panic: Going nowhere without my init! " > (the system then reboots) > > The disk geometry has been set correctly and the kernel > recognizes both the scsi host adapter and the hard disk. > > I cant seem to find what the problem is. > Please help if you have any ideas as to the cause. It > will be very much appreciated. > > Paul Woods > . >
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