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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Install problem with FreeBSD-2.0R on P5/PCI/WD IDE Date: 27 Nov 1994 13:41:22 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 24 Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov27134122@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <KELLY.94Nov26202321@woody.fsl.noaa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov's message of Sun, 27 Nov 1994 03:23:21 GMT In article <KELLY.94Nov26202321@woody.fsl.noaa.gov> kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) writes: The BIOS (Phoenix 1.03 M5Pi-05) reports the drive geometry just fine: 2100 cyl, 16 hd, 63 sect. ^^^^ If I don't miss my guess, you've got FreeBSD trying to install at a cylinder >1024. As I noted in the TROUBLESHOOTING guide on the first boot floppy (uh, are people reading that? :-), PC hardware simply won't allow such things to happen with its paltry little 10 bit cylinder address. You need to enable cylinder translation with this configuration. The bad news is that you probably also need to re-install DOS to do so, if you happened to install DOS without this enabled in the BIOS. Nonetheless, give it a shot and see if DOS is happy with geometry translation turned on, then try to find out what the translated head/sect values are and plug these into FreeBSD's "(G)eometry" command when you re-install it. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends