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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problems with bootup Date: 7 May 1996 20:48:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4mocup$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <318D39AB.47FF@unixg.ubc.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E wayne tamagi <wtamagi@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could suggest a course of action. I am a > rookie at Unix and have recently installed Freebsd on my computer. My > hard drive is partitioned. I have Windows 95 on the C drive partition > and Freebsd on the other partition. The size of my hard drive is 696 MB > with cylinders/heads/sectors of 1416/16/63 (thats what it reads in my > CMOS setup). However when I go to install Freebsd, the disk geometry is > set at 708 32 63. I used this setting and installed Freebsd, and when I You should use the CMOS value here. Correct FreeBSD's sysinstall if it's got the wrong idea. > go to bootup I select Freebsd at bootup and it shows > > >> FreeBsd Boot...Use hd(1,a)... > > | > that's it and can't see my hard drive running. Anyway, that's nothing to do with geometry handling. I suspect your system has some problems with protected mode (right at the time when the ``twiddle'' starts spinning, this is where the FreeBSD bootstrap toggles between real and protected mode for the first time). Watch out for correct memory timings etc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)