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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: emb@tiac.net Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FeeBSD 2.0: Problems with WD 540mg IDE drive.. Date: 23 Nov 1994 19:04:09 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3b03n9$f7q@sundog.tiac.net> Reply-To: emb@tiac.net NNTP-Posting-Host: herman.tiac.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.03 I am trying to switch from Linux to FreeBSD 2.0 Release, and I am haivng one hell of a time getting my hard drive to wrok. It is a Western Digital 540 meg IDE drive. I have looked through the installation notes, and the troubleshooting notes. Here is the error message: wd0: can't handle 32 heads from partition table. (controller value 16 restored) cannot mount root (and then the system reboots in 15 seconds..) Now, I have tried just about everything I can think of. I have made the initial partition from OS/2, DOS, and the bootdisk. I made sure the geometry is 1048cyl, 16hds, 63secs in the BIOS, and I made sure the geometry in FDISK was set the same way. The closest I have gotten to actually loading is NOT getting the first error message, and just getting: cannot mount root. Please any ideas or suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance! Eric B. ---------------- Eric M. Busalacchi emb@vox.trystero.com (until I get FreeBSD up! =-)