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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!info.curtin.edu.au!griffith From: griffith@cs.curtin.edu.au (Don Griffiths) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Problem booting from HD Date: 16 Jun 94 06:30:23 GMT Organization: Curtin University of Technology Lines: 43 Message-ID: <griffith.771748223@marsh> References: <griffith.771232492@marsh> <Cr6rKM.A2F@hippo.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: vincent.cs.curtin.edu.au csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes: >In <griffith.771232492@marsh> griffith@cs.curtin.edu.au (Don Griffiths) writes: >>G'Day, >>I've just installed FreeBSD 1.1 GENERICAH#0 on a 386DX33 pc with >>a Plus Impluse 120AT IDE hard drive. It boots fine from floppy >>but I cannot get it to boot from the HD after copying the kernel >>to it. I can direct the floppy to load the kernel from the HD >>but each time I try to boot it from the HD direct, I get the >>message "Missing Operating System". The PC has previously had >>MS-DOS 6.2 on the HD. Any Ideas? >>Don Griffiths. >This looks like FreeBSD and your BIOS have different ideas about your >disk's geometry. (When booting, FreeBSD uses the BIOS to load the kernel). Yes, this was the problem. My CMOS gave the geometry as 900 cyl, 15 heads & 17 sec/cyl but BSD found 814 cyl, 9 heads & 32 sec/cyl. Changing the CMOS to what BSD thought it was solved the problem...... Now I've got a new one :-( I got to the point of extracting the bin.tar file when part way through it gave a segmentation violation. I attempted to restart it only to have it report that it couldn't find tar!. I halted the system to reboot but on rebooting it gave the message "panic: init died" and then proceeded to reboot itself adnausium. I've rebooted using the initial boot floopy & rfs and found that the filesystem is still on the HD and appears ok. What do I do now? (Short of repeating the entire install?) Don Griffiths. -- /---------------------+--------------------------------------------\ | Don Griffiths | Internet: griffith@cs.curtin.edu.au | | Information Systems | | | Curtin University | Telephone: +61-9-351-7691 | | GPO Box U1987 | Group 3 Fascimile: +61-9-351-3076 | | PERTH, 6000 +--------------------------------------------+ | Western Australia | "Don't Litigate, Innovate!" | \---------------------+--------------------------------------------/