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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
Date: 12 May 1996 10:39:21 GMT
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote:

> FYI, I added the EIDE MAX card from Promise to my 386 box so I could
> attach a CD-ROM drive to it.  After this FreeBSD would no longer boot
> directly, even after rebuilding an ATAPI kernel.

It's a known problem.  Disable the Promise's BIOS.  (FreeBSD doesn't
use it anyway.)

-- 
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. ;-)