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From: sp2joap1@ite.his.se (Joacim Persson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: problems with bootup
Date: 9 May 1996 21:46:50 GMT
Organization: Solace Computer Society, Sundsvall
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Joacim Persson (sp2joap1@ite.his.se) wrote:


: Do you have a Promise EIDE card with a bootprom on by any chance?
: I have, and apparently there's some trouble with those. I don't know
: exactly what yet, I just got the tip.
: bbl

Turned out the PROM screws up the geometry at boot time. I don't know the
strap settings for disabling the prom, so I just removed the prom.

Works great now.