Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:13:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booteasy cannot boot from wd0 (first IDE disk) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960926221000.177A-100000@foo.netvoyage.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960926205505.2020B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Bryan Ogawa wrote: > > > > > I have a machine which has a new IDE drive (1.6Gig Seagate). I installed > > 2.1.5 on it, and have encountered the following problem: > > > > Booteasy can find the drive, but it cannot reach the boot prompt. > > This is a sure sign of a geometry problem on your first disk. Try > reinstalling, this time make a small DOS partition, then delete it in the > fdisk editor. Argh. Irritating, but unsurprising. Is there any way to change the geometry on the first disk without a reinstall? And is there any way to get the geometry correct without DOS? While I can reinstall pretty easily, I'd just as soon not if there's any other way to tell the drive about the correct drive geometry. Especially since I'm not sure I have real easy access to DOS. Thanks! bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/
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