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From: Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;)
Date: 22 Jun 1996 23:47:47 GMT
Organization: a2i network
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Message-ID: <4qi0n3$5i1@samba.rahul.net>
References: <31BD1390.54AB@bekkers.com.au> <4q08tj$jju@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q0umm$l6l@baygull.rtd.com> <4q1kcp$1mc@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q29eq$33k_002@news.livenet.net> <4q2lfe$ai0@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q3m32$35v@dyson.iquest.net> <4qgo5n$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4qhg3i$1qq@samba.rahul.net>
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In <4qhg3i$1qq@samba.rahul.net> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> writes:
>I experienced similar symptoms when using a second IDE controller (brand
>"Promise"). No prompt from the FreeBSD boot disk. My solution was to
>always boot from ms-dos via fbsdboot. That made it work ok. (Even
>building a customized ATAPI kernel did not allow direct boots.)
I'm using a Promise 2300+ (VLB) in mine. When I switched to this
controller (from a plain ol' cheap ISA IDE card) I had to disable the BIOS
on the card--until I did this, the machine would hang at the point where the
little twirly thing appears while the kernel is loading (just after the
Boot: prompt).
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| Dennis Holmes dholmes@rahul.net |
| San Jose, CA Disclaimer: I'm temporarily insane. |
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