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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16434 comp.os.linux.help:78473 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: fenske@rocke.electro.swri.edu (Robert Fenske Jr) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help Subject: Installing on 1GB IDE drive Date: 5 Feb 1995 12:37:32 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 18 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9502051837.AA19887@rocke.electro.swri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu I have a Gateway P5-90 with a 1GB IDE drive. I can not get either FreeBSD 2.0 nor Linux (1.0.9 I think) to boot. Either installation proceeds normally as far as I can tell. Linux does give warnings about having more than 1024 cylinders but still seems to install fine. The FreeBSD boot manager installs fine and I can use it, but it won't boot my FreeBSD partition. It seems that the FreeBSD mount points are always wiped out or never really saved, because after I reboot with the floppies again, fdisk never shows the mount points. The disk partition info is does stay correct. And the Linux LILO creates a horrible grinding noise and prints a '4' about once a second. If anyone has successfully installed either OS on a system like mine (or one with a 1GB IDE), I would appreciate knowing what you had to do to make it work. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw | The Taming the C*sm*s series: Electromagnetics Division /R---\ | Southwest Research Institute | I | | "The Martian canals were the San Antonio, Texas USA \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort."