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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!garnet.bmr.gov.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Can't Boot FreeBSD after installation Date: 26 Mar 1996 18:44:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4j9dua$e3j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31541dac.35470247@newshost.cyberramp.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 hairy@hehe.haha (Hairy) writes: > I've got a 486/100 system w/16mb RAM, and 850MB Conner drive (using a > Promise 2300+ EIDE VLB controler). > > I can install 2.1.0 just fine (from a DOS Partition), but once > installed and I try to boot from the Hard Drive the system hard locks. The Promise EIDE is known to be broken with FreeBSD. I think you have to make it `dumb' (or something at this effect) in order to make it FreeBSD-friendly. -- 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. ;-)