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From: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Problems while installing FreeBSD
Date: 11 Nov 93 10:04:40 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Hi !
Before I ask something, I will tell you my configuration:
i486, 20MB ram, Maxtor XT-8760 S (SCSI-DIsk, 640MB, with 1632 cyl, 15 heads,
etc.), Adaptec 1542B, one DOS partition at the first half of the disk (320 MB),
no boot-manager yet.
Ok, now I'll gonna tell you, what happened and what I've tried.
First I booted from the kcopy-ah-floppy. All went ok. Then I put in the
filesystem-floppy. The first thing that was obscure was the question if it's
really a SCSI drive. After this, the geometry of the disk was totally
different from the DISK-BIOS. It says that the disk only has 1024 cylinders
and 64 heads etc. Also it said that there might be problems having DOS AND
FreeBSD on a disk which has more than 1024 cylinders. Ok, after this the
disklabel said it could find no disk. Then the system hung up. I have to say
that I wanted to have DOS accesible from FreeBSD and that there was shown no
more DOS-Partition. At this time the system hung up. (After saying that there's
no space left on device /dev/rsd0...) There was no bootable system on the disk
anymore so I have to try it again. This time I took the whole space for FreeBSD
(DOS was written out, so what could happen ?). Oh, I reinstalled the master
boot record of course with fdisk /mbr. After this I came up to the statiion (I
have to mention that I now said to the program that my disk has 1632 cyls etc.)
where copy asks, whcih kernel I want to have. I said sd0a and the system halted
and booted again. After this there was no kernel found at the hd and the system
boots and boots and boots...
Ok, it could be my Kcopy-Disk (perhaps it's not ok ? I don't know). But it's
not ok when I can't even put DOS AND FreeBSD on one disk. It works for 386BSD
so why it shouldn't work for FreeBSD (ok, when I used 386BSD I only had 8MB ram,
some people told me that I can't access the higher 4 MB on an ISA system but
it should work ! Am I right ?) ?
Thanx for any answers !
Very sad,
Udo
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