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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news2.acs.oakland.edu!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!not-for-mail From: Rslater@cris.com (Rick Slater) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Install kernel panic problem Date: 26 Mar 1997 18:32:58 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Message-ID: <5hbq4q$8rn@chronicle.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: galileo.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 42 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37930 As some of you know, I've been trying to get FreeBSD 2.1.0 to deal with a 4 Gig EIDE drive, one half of which is devoted to Windows 95 in a 2047M primary dos partition. One of the very first things I did was to carefully trash the dos partition by letting FreeBSD write to it. At the time, I didn't realize that FreeBSD is limited to 1024M dos partitions. After restoring the machine to its original configuration from a backup tape, I decided not to repartition the Win 95 area, but rather to shrink an extended dos partition that covered the remainder of the disk and install FreeBSD in what remained. The extended dos partition was resized to 1004M with the dos fdisk program, and the FreeBSD cdrom installation program was started. Unlike the previous install (which had to deal with only one dos partition), this one did not succeed. After selecting (C)ommit from the installation menu, the kernel paniced! No changes were made to either the MBR or the partition table (the panic message indicated an install read error), and Windows 95 successfully rebooted. FreeBSD sees the disk as: 527 cyl, 255 heads, 63 sectors at the installation menus, whereas BIOS and the FreeBSD IDE install kernel both see it as 8400 cyl, 16 heads, and 63 sec/track. I don't know enough about EIDE to know if this is really significant, but the last time assumed that it probably was not and got a successful installation. There were only two things that were different in this second and failing attempt: (1) There was an extended dos partition present, and (2) I had asked the installation program to install the boot manager (the first time it was asked to leave the MBR alone). Is it the presence of the extended partition that is leading to the read error and panic? If so, should I wait for the version 2.2 cdrom to arrive before continuing? Thanks again, Rick Slater -- I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.