Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:07:54 -0500 (EST) From: Tasos Drosopoulos <drosos@abrdr.dreo.dnd.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: help ?? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960311135036.131A-100000@pcdrosos.abrdr.dreo.dnd.ca>
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Hello there, I've been using linux for the past 2 years (currently Slackware 3.0) and generally am quite happy with it. However, I just got a new 4.3 GB hard-drive, and decided to try out FreeBSD. I tried to install the minimal installation, (bin) to see if it works. 1. On the fresh SCSI hard disk (Seagate Hawk4) with the default settings on my new SCSI card (Buslogic 956C) I first made a couple of Linux partitions. I then went through the novice installation procedure and it seemed to go OK. I did not install anything on the boot manager, expecting to see an option for a boot floppy later on. 2. After the installation, I checked the disk and there seemed to be overlap partition errors. Going back, I enabled the >1GB option on the SCSI card BIOS, remade the Linux partitions and tried again to install FreeBSD. This time I get correct disk geometry, but end up with a panic message "vm_alloc" and the system reboots. 3. Any advice/suggestions on above? BTW is there a way to boot by floppy after system installation, or do I have to choose the bootmanager option? And how to I pass parameters to the kernel to recognize my 128MB RAM (it seems to see only 64)? Thanks in advance for any help. ********************************************************** * Anastasios (Tasos) Drosopoulos * * phone: (613) 998-2859 / FAX: (613) 990-8906 * * email: Tasos.Drosopoulos@dreo.dnd.ca * * URL : http://www.dreo.dnd.ca * **********************************************************
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