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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!voskovec.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: Caesar@starkreality.com (Caesar) Newsgroups: neosoft.users.freebsd,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free BSD trouble Followup-To: neosoft.users.freebsd,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 2 Feb 1997 00:46:57 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5d0o61$dd7@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <32EAF919.17A0@neosoft.com> <5cflae$gal@bonkers.taronga.com> <5cpfsk$fqk@uuneo.neosoft.com> <32F15A22.6221@onramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.109.5.35 X-Newsreader: TIN [Windows/NT 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34852 Dave Littell (dlittell@onramp.net) wrote: : - If we set up the install to give 2.1.6 the entire disk (no boot : manager) *something* changed enough in the boot blocks to cause the BIOS : to wedge the entire machine during the IDE autodetect phase. Once : again, 2.1.5 worked perfectly. The disk had to be physically removed, : installed in another machine (we luckily found a machine that had a BIOS : that didn't get hung up on whatever it ran across in the boot blocks), : FDISK'ed there, and reinstalled. Again, if I were some poor soul at : home without a lab full of equipment, I'd have a dead machine and no way : to fix it. Too much joy for me. I can't really pin all of this on : FreeBSD (BIOS boneheads are really at fault here), but I after wasting : far too much time on this kind of silliness, I'd like to hope for better : installation testing. Suprise, suprise...we just went through the same thing yesterday.