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#! rnews 1544 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Problem On New Install Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 03:25:09 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31134615.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4en78l$mpq@mars.efn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Michelle Brownsworth <michellb@efn.org> Michelle Brownsworth wrote: > I went back to the documentation, in particular, the hardware > troubleshooting docs, which addressed this very problem. It stated that > the problem was most likely wrong disk geometry, and that the solution > was to reinstall FreeBSD, taking care to ensure the geometry was > correct. So I did that. The partitioning editor correctly recognized > the drive geometry (3148 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track) and I > proceeded to the label editor, and so forth through the rest of the > install, which went fine. Unfortunately, you used the "native" geometry again, however. When you went to cylinder translation, the 3148/16/63 values when out the window. You need to run pfdisk under DOS and see what the translated geometry is, now that you've enabled this in the controller. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project