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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ogicse!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!noc.arc.nasa.gov!calabres Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Difficulties installing FreeBSD-1.0 EPSILON Message-ID: <1993Oct7.101157.5854@news.arc.nasa.gov> From: calabres@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Angelo D. Calabrese) Date: 7 Oct 93 10:11:57 GMT Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov References: <28vb49INN6cq@gap.caltech.edu> Organization: NASA Science Internet Network Keywords: FreeBSD, EPSILON, install Article-I.D.: news.1993Oct7.101157.5854 Lines: 34 In article <28vb49INN6cq@gap.caltech.edu>, nygardm@cco.caltech.edu (Michael T. Nygard) writes: |> Hello! |> |> After finally returning to a place with an Internet connection, I |> decided to install FreeBSD and ditch SCO. (cheers, applause) The installation |> proceeds with only one warning, about a large drive >1024 cylinders. After |> installing the first two floppies (kernel and filesystem), and attempting to |> boot from the hard drive, I get the following message: |> |> Error loading operating system |> |> This appears very quickly, almost instantly after the BIOS messages finish. I |> suspect something with the hard drive configuration, but frankly, I'm at a |> loss as to where to look. I'm using an Adaptec 1542B, and I'm not aware of |> any geometry translation going on. Here's the rundown on my system. I am having the same problem when I try to get FreeBSD to co-exits. I do not have this problem when I install just FreeBSD. I am thinking of buying a smaller drive and install DOS on the second drive and have FreeBSD on the first. I would us a floppy disk to get to DOS. FreeBSD would be the default power on boot. Has anyone done this? My system Config. Nice 486DX2/66 16 Mb RAM ATI Pro Gr 2M Adaptec 1742 Maxtor LTX-535S 4 serial/2 parallel/1 Games/4 floppies and 2 IDE(Disabled) (13 Portfolio Card) Thanks, Angelo