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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!usenet From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@tfs.com> Subject: Re: FeeBSD 2.0: Problems with WD 540mg IDE drive.. Message-ID: <Czqz7J.3B3@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com Organization: TRW Financial Systems References: <3b03n9$f7q@sundog.tiac.net> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 01:09:19 GMT Lines: 33 > 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 send me an email with the following info, and I will try to look into this. I have one of these disks myself, and I know that I installed 2.0-R on it, because I >wrote< that part. I need: The geometry you see in the top line in the (F)disk menu The partitioning you have made in the (D)isklabel menu Do you have any other OS's on the disk ? Does you bios use the same geometry ? Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD 2.0 release eng.