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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: help! partition problems installing FreeBSD Date: 18 Nov 1993 18:15:02 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2cge36$7ia@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <Uguutcq00iV0I3P6A7@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <Uguutcq00iV0I3P6A7@andrew.cmu.edu>, Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> wrote: >I am having trouble getting FreeBSD to install next to a DOS partition >on my HD. I have the latest version of the install disks (got them over >the net yesterday). My system is a 486DX2 w/EISA and Local buses, a >Buslogic 742A HD controller, and Maxtor 7345s scsi drive [2220 cyl, 4 >head, 76 sector]. > >Here's what I did: I erased all partition information with fdisk, ran >fdisk/mbr to remove the boot region. then, i created an 85M DOS >partition, formatted it, and installed DOS. I started installing >FreeBSD. It recognized the DOS partition fine, and I selected all the >defaults for the HD (which were correct), and the defaults for >installing the filesystem after DOS. This all worked fine. The 2220 cyl, 4 head, and 76 sector information is incorrect if you want BSD to reside with DOS on the same hard drive. You need to determine what DOS is using for translated parameters, and it appears that the FreeBSD boot disks still aren't picking up the correct information still. Use pfdisk from the dos_tools directory to determine what the translated parameters are and use them instead of the real geometry parameters and it should work better. (While you're at it, get the offsets and all the correct info from the drive as well to make sure the install disks are doing the right thing.) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me