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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!news2.interlog.com!winternet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dhesi.a2i!dhesi From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;) Date: 23 Jun 1996 19:52:12 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4qk79c$l2f@samba.rahul.net> References: <31BD1390.54AB@bekkers.com.au> <4q08tj$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> <4qjfme$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dhesi In <4qjfme$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote: >> >This is far beyond the point where it will become FreeBSD-specific, >> >John. He's got problems in loading the first 15 sectors off his boot >> >floppy (which is done by the BIOS). >> >> I experienced similar symptoms when using a second IDE controller (brand >> "Promise"). No prompt from the FreeBSD boot disk. >But that was only when booting off the IDE, right? Our magic flamer >of the week seems to have problems getting the boot prompt for the >floppy. No, the presence of the Promise IDE controller totally prevented a boot from the FreeBSD boot floppy. Before I installed the Promise card (so I could add a CD-ROM drive) the system booted just fine off the boot floppy. After I installed it the Promise card, the boot off the floppy would hang before anything was ever printed. I did regenerate the boot floppy to make sure it wasn't just a bad disk. I did not check to see if disabling the on-board BIOS on the Promise card made a difference. I solved the problem by keeping the MS-DOS partition active on drive C, and having autoexec.bat run fbsdboot.exe to boot FreeBSD. That worked just fine. -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> "please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>