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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD install 'hangs' my system Date: 7 Oct 1996 21:14:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 49 Message-ID: <53brr4$fgs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3258615F.74FA@best.com> 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 In-Reply-To: <3258615F.74FA@best.com> To: bsampley@best.com Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> wrote: > After the probing correctly identified my hard drive a few more lines > flashed by me a warp 9.0 and then the screen cleared and displayed a > solid white non-flashing curser in the lower left corner. At the same > time the HDD (hard drive) light remained lit. The instructions warned Try booting with `-c' (directly at the ``Boot:'' prompt), type `visual' at the next prompt, and disable all the drivers where you don't have actual hardware for. > that the probing could take up to 3 minutes or more, so I left the > system alone for ten minutes. When I returned there was no change. I Does it respond to Alt-F2, and display some debug messages over there? Or, can you hit ScrLck, followed by PgUp, and browse back through the messages? > HD geometry: 3148 cylinders 16 heads 63 SPT Hmm. I'm no expert for IDE drives nor do i know the state of the art in FreeBSD's IDE support, but it's possible that FreeBSD won't be able to boot off this harddisk in this translation mode. Anyway, it should not hang either, it should even install (but refuse to boot off the harddisk later). > 1 primary DOS partition ~475meg > 1 extented DOS partition containing 2 subpartitions (my D & E drives) > ~525meg > 1 Linux swap partition 16meg > 1 Linux native partition using the rest of the drive. > > I was going use the space allocated to Linux to install FBSD. Does the Linux space follow the primary DOS partition directly (i.e., does it start below 508 MB)? This would be best. Btw., you can collapse both Linux partitions into one, since FreeBSD can sub-partition its disk space. (We call the fdisk units `slices', just to distinguish them from the BSD `partitions'.) > Please email and post your responses. Thanks in advance. mailed & posted. (Feel happy, mail is more expensive for me...) -- 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. ;-)