Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot Manager & 1Gb Seagate ST31230N Date: 20 Nov 1995 20:11:11 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 35 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <48qncv$fd1@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <48ltju$lg0@eplet.mira.net.au> <48ove1$cki@jthome.jthome.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: se In article <48ove1$cki@jthome.jthome.com>, jeff@news.jthome.com (Jeff Tyler) writes: |> tonyj@werple.mira.net.au writes: |> |> >Has anyone had problems Booting with a Seagate ST31230N on an NCR |> >controller with FreeBSD 2.0.5? |> >After installing FreeBSD on the Seagate, it refuses to boot from Boot |> >Manager, going back to the F1 prompt. Performing the same installation |> >on a Quantum 4Gb worked perfectly. |> > I think the problem is in the drive geometry settings but have tried |> >various combinations without success.. |> >Has anyone got FreeBSD booting from an ST31230N? |> >What geometry settings did you use?. |> >regards |> >Tony |> >tonyj@werple.net.au |> |> Yes, I had similar problems here, had to DOS fdisk a small (1mb DOS) |> partition on this disk. The first (FreeBSD) partition looks like this: Yes, I found the same ... But you don't have to keep the DOS partition. After it had been created by DOS FDISK, the MBR seems to be initialised in a way, that makes the FreeBSD boot happy, too :) I just reclaimed all space for FreeBSD, when doing the install, and thus got rid of the DOS partition I have no use for ... -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>