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From: jkodadek@winternet.com (J. Kodadek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Installation woes, part 2
Date: 31 Aug 1995 22:41:41 GMT
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Ok, I posted a few days ago, but my post seems to have disappeared. Also,
if you read this, Jordan, I sent you a much more specific email a few
days ago but haven't gotten a response (I probably messed up, though).
So, I will start again.
I have a brand new Dell Dimension P75 with IDE controller built into the
motherboard, I can't find any other info on it. The drive is a Quantum
Fireball 1080A. I have a ~350M dos partition at the beginning of the
disk (according to dos fdisk anyways.) I have the files from the 2.0.5R
cdrom copied to this partition (bin, xf86311, manpages, etc).
I can use the boot disk and get through the installation menus and
everything fine, but when I do "Commit", I get the following error:
Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and try
again.
I was told this probably a disk geometry problem, so I checked the real
geometry. The label on the disk and pfdisk both say it's 2112/16/53.
The FreeBSD fdisk thinks it's 528/64/63. When I tried to change it in
FreeBSDs fdisk to the correct settings, here is what I try to do with the
partition table and the error I get:
Disk name: wd0
Bios Geom: 2112/16/53
Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 717633 717695 wd0s1 2 fat 6
717696 1410784 2128479 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C
2128480 416 2128895 - 6 unused 0
--------------------------------Message-------------------------------
chunk 'wd0s1' [63...717695] does not start on a track boundary.
chunk 'wd0s2' [717696...2128479] does not start on a track boundary.
----------------------------------------------------------100%--------
--------------------------------[EXIT]--------------------------------
If I confirm and go ahead and try to install from here, it messes up my
dos partition and it still does not install FreeBSD. I'd appreciate some
help so I can give FreeBSD a try on a real system and decide if I want to
keep it over Linux. :) Thanks.
P.S.: regarding the first error, YES, the root.flp IS in the correct
place. :)
jess kodadek
jkodadek@winternet.com