Re: fresh install of 5.2-r doesn't book on 80gig disk

Citeren ian j hart <ianjhart_at_ntlworld.com>:

> On Thursday 05 February 2004 12:44 pm, Jev wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm trying to install 5.2-R on a Western Digitial WD800 hard disk.
> By
> > using all the "default" settings used by the freebsd installer,
> when I
> > attempt to boot the machine I get:
> >
> > Invalid Partition
> > Invalid Partition
> > No /boot/loader
> >
> > FreeBSD/i386 boot
> > Default: 1:ad(1,a)/kernel
> > boot:
> > Invalid partition
> > No /kernel
> >
> > FreeBSD/i386 boot
> > Default: 1:ad(1,a)/kernel
> > boot:
> >
> > As suggested in the warning message before I get to set up my
> slices, I
> > attempted to manually set the disks geometry to what my bios
> reports it as.
> >
> > This is what shows in dmesg:
> > ad0: 76319MB <WDC WD800BB-32FRAO> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master
> UDMA100
> > My bios reports the [cylinder/head/sector] value as:
> > [38309/16/255]
> >
> > Specifying either of those values causes the install program to
> inform
> > me that they are incorrect and setting the geom back to
> [9729/255/63]. I
> > don't know if the failure to boot is caused by the geometry.
> >
> > In addition, I tried to split up the disk into smaller slices,
> without
> > success. [Not]Using the freebsd bootmgr makes no diff either. I
> also
> > tried this with a 5.0-R cd, and had the exact same result.
> >
> > Also, the above mentioned warning message tells me to "please
> consult
> > the Hardware Guide in the Documentation submenu" but I couldn't
> find any
> > relevant information there :/
> >
> > Help is greatly appreciated.....
> >
> > -Jev
> 
> Might not work for 5.x but try BIOS mode=lba rather than auto.

I have had the same with my 250 GB WD. What happens is that 
sysinstall thinks the value it gets for the boot process is wrong. This 
isn't true! You need to change it back to its orginal function. You can 
use the scoll-lock key to get the value from the screen if you need.

-- 
Alex