Re: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:37:39 +0200
rk47 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD'ers
>
> I have a problem with booting from FreeBSD 4.8/4.9 and 5.2, they all
> gave the same error. I have an 80Gig Seagate HD with a Pentium 4, Epox
> motherboard and Phoenix version 2.2 BIOS.
> [...]
> I use Boot Manager with Windows XP on the first part of the HD and
> FreeBSD on the second part of the partition.
If your Windows XP partition is bigger than 500 megabytes, you should
probably take the following into account:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#DISK-DIVIDE-RESTRICTIONS
btw, there is an option to boot0cfg ('packet') which can work around
this limitation, but I don't know how well it works.
-Chris
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Re: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive
--- Forwarded message --- From: Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: rk47 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:13:32 +0100 On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:37:39 +0200, rk47 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi FreeBSD'ers I have a problem with booting from FreeBSD 4.8/4.9 and 5.2, they all gave the same error. I have an 80Gig Seagate HD with a Pentium 4, Epox motherboard and Phoenix version 2.2 BIOS. When I install FreeBSD from CD it displays a warning stating that my disk Geometry of 155061/16/63 is not correct and that it will use a more likely setting (which turns out to be 9729/255/63 in the FDisk menu). Let the BIOS probe for IDE devices, and thus it will probe for the proper geometry. Write down the cylinders/head/sectors and insert it when you're in the FDISK section of the installation. Good luck, Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Booting with 80 Gig hard drive
Hi FreeBSD'ers I have a problem with booting from FreeBSD 4.8/4.9 and 5.2, they all gave the same error. I have an 80Gig Seagate HD with a Pentium 4, Epox motherboard and Phoenix version 2.2 BIOS. When I install FreeBSD from CD it displays a warning stating that my disk Geometry of 155061/16/63 is not correct and that it will use a more likely setting (which turns out to be 9729/255/63 in the FDisk menu). The BIOS gives me three options for the type of Hard drive; CHS, LBA and Large, I can ONLY enter the settings for LBA (the settings that FreeBSD used above), any of the other settings displayed in my BIOS are rejected by FreeBSD with the same error message. However, if I set my disk geometry in FreeBSD to the same settings as what BIOS reports as LBA (9729/255/63) and also select this in my BIOS as my hard disk type, FreeBSD still gives me the following error and refuse to boot: >> error 4 lba 81915436 error 4 lba 81915436 No /bot/loader error 4 lba 81915346 No /kernel boot:? >> I use Boot Manager with Windows XP on the first part of the HD and FreeBSD on the second part of the partition. Any help would be greatly appreciated Regards Peut ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
