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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disklabel can't write to sd0? Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:30:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3v1l11$eke@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3v0r76$qqu@cronkite.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3v0r76$qqu@cronkite.cisco.com>, Jim Wampler <jwampler@cisco.com> wrote: >The FreeBSD installation appears to go ok, but upon reboot I'm dropped >back into OS/2's boot manager. I'm installing on my third scsi hard >disk, sd2. I discovered the disk geometry by installing a DOS Most systems require fiddling to even get a drive other than sd0 and sd1 to be bootable - are you sure this is going to work? There are only two BIOS vectors AFAIK - 0x80 and 0x81. >happy with the geometry. I've tried to boot the floppy and load the >kernel on sd0 by typing "sd(2,a)/kernel" at the floppy boot prompt. I >get the message "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0" repeated rapidly and endlessly. Yeah, that's the BIOS alright. It's saying "I can't read that", essentially, and is what's happening as the boot blocks try to use the BIOS to read the kernel off the 3rd drive. Have you tried booting this by way of OS/2's boot manager rather than a floppy? It may have some clever way of reassigning this since OS/2 seems to boot off your 3rd drive (or does it? If not then it's more than possible that this isn't a FreeBSD problem at all and that NO OS would boot off your 3rd disk). Jordan