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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!ub!csn!qwerty.fsl.noaa.gov!qwerty.fsl.noaa.gov!kelly From: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Subject: Install problem with FreeBSD-2.0R on P5/PCI/WD IDE Message-ID: <KELLY.94Nov28094452@woody.fsl.noaa.gov> Sender: news@fsl.noaa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: Forecast Systems Lab, NOAA - Boulder CO, USA Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 16:44:52 GMT Lines: 18 In <JKH.94Nov27134122@whisker.hubbard.ie>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: 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? :-) I noticed that bit. But (F)disk says my FreeBSD slice starts at cylinder 876 and extends all the way to cylinder 2100. That should be OK, right? And here's another datapoint for you: if I boot from the boot floppy and then at the boot prompt type hd(0,a)/kernel, it boots fine and I can continue to install FreeBSD normally. It seems that just booting directly from the hard disk is the problem. Any other ideas? Any info I can send you? --k