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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot trouble revisited
Date: 26 Dec 1995 14:53:22 GMT
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andersen@fastlane.net (Craig G. Andersen) writes:

>   When the system boots it hits the floppy for about 2 seconds (based on
>   floppy activity light), and never returns (no boot prompt).
>   So as not to be premature I waited several minutes with no floppy
>   activity.

Cache problems?  Try disabling the cache.

Does your EIDE install some BIOS extension in the memory < 640 KB?

(Just wild guesses.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)