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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!ray.com!news.ray.com!news.res.ray.com!swlnews.msd.ray.com!not-for-mail From: wag@swl.msd.ray.com (Bill Gianopoulos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problem with floopy boot with SIIG EIDE controller Date: 4 Feb 1997 09:10:43 -0500 Organization: Raytheon Company Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5d7g13$efe@swlrd2.msd.ray.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: swlrd2.msd.ray.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35047 I have an old 486DX that I got used at a good price. It had no hard drives in it. It's BIOS supported 528MB dirves maximum, and you have a hard time buying anything smaller than 2gig these days. So I bought an SIIG Fast EIDE Controller, EIDE Master ISA+I/O. This fixed my DOS problem with support for large drives as well as saving a slot as I could replace the serial/parellel I/O card as well. Everything seemed perfect until I discovered that FreeBSD will not boot from a floppy with this board installed. Anyone know why? Is there a workaround? Will a hard drive boot work if I use another machine to do the install? This is not really urgent, as I was only going to install FreeBSD on it because I had a 120MB disk in the 286 that this was replacing, and rather than just throw it away, I thought I could install FreeBSD on it. I have a pentium which is what I really use to run FreeBSD. Please respond by e-mail. I'll post the results. Thanks in advance. -- William A. Gianopoulos; Raytheon Company gianowa@eo.ray.com -------------------------------------------------------- This is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.