Can't boot 4.3-R from SCSI

Richard Smith rdls at rdls.net
Mon Apr 30 23:19:02 BST 2001


On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:11:38PM +0100, Richard Smith wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade an industrial PC from 4.2-R to 4.3-R using CDROM.
> The PC has a 4G IBM SCSI disk on an Adaptec controller (pretty standard 
> stuff).
> 
> Under 4.2-R the disk was "dangerously dedicated".
> Under 4.3-R that is no longer an option.
> 
> I have tried a number of combinations...
> 
> 1) standard MBR + 4G partition => "missing operating system"
> 
> 2) boot manager + 4G partition => "F1 - FreeBSD" => long beep
> 
> 3) standard MBR + 1G + 3G partitions => "invalid partition table"
> 
> In (3) above, the root slice was in the first partition (which was less
> than 1000 cylinders), I was grappling at straws by this time.
> 
> Could it be disk geometry? If so, where do I discover the correct values.

Having read the FAQ, I think I need to try turning off geometry translation
in the SCSI BIOS. That'll give me something to do tomorrow ;-)





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