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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news From: wayne tamagi <wtamagi@unixg.ubc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: problems with bootup Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 16:28:43 -0700 Organization: The University of British Columbia Lines: 26 Message-ID: <318D39AB.47FF@unixg.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: port59.annex8.net.ubc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) I was wondering if anyone could suggest a course of action. I am a rookie at Unix and have recently installed Freebsd on my computer. My hard drive is partitioned. I have Windows 95 on the C drive partition and Freebsd on the other partition. The size of my hard drive is 696 MB with cylinders/heads/sectors of 1416/16/63 (thats what it reads in my CMOS setup). However when I go to install Freebsd, the disk geometry is set at 708 32 63. I used this setting and installed Freebsd, and when I go to bootup I select Freebsd at bootup and it shows >> FreeBsd Boot...Use hd(1,a)... | that's it and can't see my hard drive running. So I went in the and changed the disk geometry to 1416/16/63 and did a install. This time at bootup when I select freebsd. My system again freezes but I dont get >> Freebsd Boot..Use hd(1,a)... etc. But my hard drive is running continuously. So I tried using the pfdisk utility and it showed my disk geometry as 707/32/63. I tried this setting with same results. Any suggestions? Wayne