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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!zygot!dlb!megatest!albrecht From: albrecht@megatest.com (Dave Albrecht) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1 CDROM Message-ID: <Cr3rMG.Axq@megatest.com> Organization: Megatest Corporation References: <2t0m3s$1pk@huey.cc.utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 23:59:51 GMT Lines: 23 From article <2t0m3s$1pk@huey.cc.utexas.edu>, by cseanf@huey.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Ficklin): > In article <CqyxzJ.CGn@megatest.com>, > Dave Albrecht <albrecht@megatest.com> wrote: > >>The installation works fine, however, >>after installation I can't boot the drive. I can boot the floppy and >>tell it hd(0,a)/386bsd or some such and it will boot the drive but it >>won't boot directly. >> > Most Adaptec cards use a translation of 32 HDS & 64 SPT. The CYL is > the size of your drive in MB. If you are using the SCSI drive w/ > another non-UNIX OS then you will run into problems. The other OSs > use the SCSI BIOS for translation. BSD & other Unixes do not. They > use the BIOS for one call on boot then talk straight to the drive > after that. If you don't tell BSD to do its own translation you > will trash whatever else is on you drive and BSD might not work > correctly. Which seems to be your problem... The secret it turns out (as Sean Fagan was kind enough to mail me) was to install in the native mode but ignore the instructions and install starting at cylinder 0. Worked for me. Dave