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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!u-psud.fr!news.u-psud.fr!souchu From: souchu@batman.news.u-psud.fr (Nicolas Souchu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: HEEELP! Installation of 2.1.0 :^( Date: 16 Jan 1996 09:18:15 GMT Organization: Universite Paris-Sud, France. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <SOUCHU.96Jan16101815@batman.news.u-psud.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: batman.lri.fr My EIDE controller is a Promise 2300+, HD WD Caviar 420 (989/15/56). A IDE CDROM is connected to the secondary controller (I don't use it for installation, just floppies). Ok, I boot with boot.flp, -c and I choose my drivers. Then I install. No problem, but the first boot from HD fails ( the boot prompt appears but boot fails). I've tried many things : - DOS-compatible-partitioning - DOS-incompatible-partitioning (whole disk for FreeBSD, using 'A' option when partitioning and labeling) The emergency shell (ALT-F4) works fine. With the fixit disk, I can mount my partitions without any problem. But during install, something seems to go wrong : my HD should receive 840 sectors per cylinder and sysinstall calculates about 4096 sectors per cylinder or something else, it warns me and makes a newfs -b 8192 -u 4096 !! :^( Thats why, I think, the bootstrap program can't find /kernel, no ? I've tried a good newfs -t 15 -u 56 on my root partition, just to copy the /kernel from the boot.flp floppy (maybe stupid) and boot from HD again. The boot prompt appears but the boot fails again. I think, FreeBSD is not for ESDI drives. Any idea ? Thanks a lot in advance. nicolas -- -- Nicolas SOUCHU - DEA d'Architectures Paralleles 95 - LRI - France email: souchu@firtech.lri.fr - signature courte, le reseau dit "Ouf!"