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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.iii.net!jthome.jthome.com!not-for-mail From: jeff@news.jthome.com (Jeff Tyler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot Manager & 1Gb Seagate ST31230N Date: 19 Nov 1995 23:16:01 -0500 Organization: Rarely if ever... Lines: 32 Message-ID: <48ove1$cki@jthome.jthome.com> References: <48ltju$lg0@eplet.mira.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: jthome.jthome.com tonyj@werple.mira.net.au writes: >Has anyone had problems Booting with a Seagate ST31230N on an NCR >controller with FreeBSD 2.0.5? >After installing FreeBSD on the Seagate, it refuses to boot from Boot >Manager, going back to the F1 prompt. Performing the same installation >on a Quantum 4Gb worked perfectly. > I think the problem is in the drive geometry settings but have tried >various combinations without success.. >Has anyone got FreeBSD booting from an ST31230N? >What geometry settings did you use?. >regards >Tony >tonyj@werple.net.au Yes, I had similar problems here, had to DOS fdisk a small (1mb DOS) partition on this disk. The first (FreeBSD) partition looks like this: jthome# disklabel -r /dev/rsd0a # /dev/rsd0a: type: SCSI disk: sd0s2 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 50 sectors/unit: 102400 Boots fine now. Hope this helps....