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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!malgudi.oar.net!news.concourse.com!usenet From: echet <echet@coil.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Couple of "gotchas" for NCR and Diamomd Stealth64 users Date: 3 Sep 1995 01:45:55 GMT Organization: Internet Concourse Lines: 20 Message-ID: <42b1cj$ct2@ns.concourse.com> References: <424cfc$gvb@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ttym00.coil.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:424cfc$gvb@nntpd.lkg.dec.com >I upgraded the flash BIOS in the NCR from 3.04.00 >to 3.06.00 and whoops FreeBSD wont boot anymore >neither will DOS. The MBR boot prompter comes >up but says: > >default: F? > >and pressing F1 (DOS) or F2 (FreeBSD) results >in nothing and the same prompt. So it looks >like there may be a problem with MBR and version >3.06.00 of the NCR PCI BIOS. Reloaded the 3.04.00 >BIOS and no problem. Just to check I ftp'd the >3.06.00 a couple more times and reloaded with >same result. I have used FreeBSD with 3.06.00 and 3.07.00 without any problems. I'm using 3.07.00 now. Eric