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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs (Lots of Debugging Info!)
Date: 21 Nov 1995 21:56:15 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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Message-ID: <48thtv$r1t@times.tfs.com>
References: <48rhok$d2l@crl.crl.com>
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In article <48rhok$d2l@crl.crl.com>, Justin Sher <jsher@crl.com> wrote:
:Julian Elischer (julian@mailhub.tfs.com) wrote:
:: In article <48glen$l75@bud.tic.ab.ca>, Kris Hansen <krish@tic.ab.ca> wrote:
:: >Installs without issue.
:: >Post install configuration ok.
:: >boots with or without booteasy and is ok until the bootmanager
:: >prompt.
:: which one?
:: this one?
:
:: Boot:
you didn't answer this, but I presume so..
If this comes up that inticates that the 2nd step bootstrap has loaded and run,
which indicates that the fdisk and disklabel partitioning is basically
correct.. (bummer.. that's easy to fix :)
:
: The act same thing is happening to me on my system! I've tried a
:zillion things and it still doesn't work! I'm using a
:EIDE2300 Plus VLB I/O Card.
:Maxtor 7540AV EIDE 540 mb Drive
:Dx2-80 system.
:
:: Well if it is after the Boot:
:: prompt, try booting off the floppy and typing:
:: wd(0,a)/kernel
:: in answer to the Boot: prompt..
:
:Tried this doesn't work
:: you don't say WHAT your geometry is, or wht you set up as the
:: slice/partition figures......
:Geomentry is 1046,16,63
ok, have you set your BIOS to have 1023,16,63 as well?
that's kinda important.... (not the 1023, but the rest is..)
:
:: do "fdisk" and write down EVERYTHING it says
:: do "disklabel wd0" and do the same
:: post the results here....
:
:I did this for my system and here are the results (Copied by hand so the
:wording might be a little off:
Ok
:figures below won't work with bios for partitions not in cylinder 1
:parameters to be used for Bios Calculations are
:Cylinders =1046 heads=16 sector/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
:sysid 165 ,(freeBsd/netbsd/386bsd)
:start 63 size 1054305 (514 megs),flag 80
:beg cyl 0 /sec1/head1
:end:cyl 1023/sec 63 head 15
looks good
:
:Disklabed wd0 gives (approximately):
:
:# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
:a: 65536 0 4.2bsd 0 0 0 #cyl(0-65*)
:b: 88256 65536 swap #cyl(65*-152*)
:c: 1054305 0 unused 0 0 #cyl(0-1045*)
:e: 61440 153792 4.2bsd 0 0 0 #cyl(152*-213*)
:f: 839073 215232 4.2bsd 0 0 0 #cyl(213*-1045)
looks good
my First guess is that the BIOS figures for that drive are not 16/63
I presume that when you boot the fixit, you can fsck the disk partitions
just fine..
julian
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