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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!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!u-psud.fr!news.u-psud.fr!souchu From: souchu@becassine.new.u-psud.fr (Nicolas Souchu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install Complexity Date: 22 Jan 1996 11:25:00 GMT Organization: Universite Paris-Sud, France. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <SOUCHU.96Jan22122500@becassine.new.u-psud.fr> References: <4ddq7e$3sg@wolfe.wimsey.com> <4dhkqh$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> <SOUCHU.96Jan17104614@becassine.news.u-psud.fe> <4djukg$d6u@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: becassine.lri.fr In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 17 Jan 1996 22:53:04 GMT In article <4djukg$d6u@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: | > I've tried all solutions, DOS-compatible-partitioning, | > DOS-incompatible, the install is ok, but the system does not want to | > boot. My BIOS geometry is simple... 989/15/56 << 1024. | | What's your actual problem? Where is the installation doing something | wrong? I had no problem with installation with every partition configurations, but I was not able to boot from HD with FreeBSD bootmanager : wd(0,a)/kernel hangs but I was able to boot my DOS partition. Then I made a stupid thing, I asked FreeBSD to verify the blocks of my HD... bad idea ! Since, DOS-fdisk did not work anymore and turned the HD off !! I've tried to fdisk (Western Digital Caviar 420) with the Promise eidefdisk program, ok but after DOS-formating and reboot, the BIOS tells me "Hard drive fails" !! A friend told that this may be due to the bad-block-check during installation. Check informations written one some blocks could not be removable anymore... he has read that thing on a Seagate HD user-documention. I think my HD just need a Low-level format... I really hope ! Now I have a Western Digital 850 EIDE HD. The BIOS extension for geometry translation is on the Promise2300+ controller. Does FreeBSD use geometry translation ? If true, when ? During bootstraping, later ? 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!"