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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free bsd wont boot Date: 21 Oct 1995 21:49:24 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <46bmck$j0k@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <467utp$1fo@tssnext.TotSysSoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Richard Jacoby <rick@TotSysSoft> wrote: >I have a P90 with on board IDE. I installed BSD. Everything worked fine >except when I booted up off the hard drive. It gives a read error and >never even starts to boot up. if I take the drive to another machine it >works no problem. Looks like a "geometry" problem. Both machines work with different disk geometry translations. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)