Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:20:16 -0500 (CDT) From: lgvagner@rcclub.org To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: figured it out Message-ID: <XFMail.980928222016.lgvagner@rcclub.org>
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i was trying to install freebsd on a old 486 to test and it had 3 scsi hdd's, i kept getting error c:1456 > 1023 error msg. i thought it was a bios limitation. but i was able to install it on the IDE disk and thought there gotta be something going on here. doing a fdisk /mbr with the 3 drives plugged in didnt help but doing it with the new seagate 1 gig did. i am able to have my first 2 small drives as / and /var and /swap and my 1 gig as /usr now !! I guess Seagate puts a non-detectable MBR on their drives because i wasn't even able to install dos onto that drive until i did the fdisk /mbr on it. I kept getting "no bootable partitions" but fdisk reported it just fine. So what drive does fdisk /mbr clean if there are more than one drive installed in the machine? I thought ALL but i was wrong. (I think) ---------------------------------- E-Mail: lgvagner@rcclub.org Date: 28-Sep-98 Time: 22:12:01 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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