Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:15:18 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Mark Blackman <tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP success on W6-LI Message-ID: <XFMail.980224131518.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199802241121.LAA03913@bird.te.rl.ac.uk>
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On 24-Feb-98 Mark Blackman wrote: ... > Forgot to mention that that the 4.06 Phoenix BIOS won't let me boot > FreeBSD from either the IDE or SCSI hard drive, so I'm compelled > to use the floppy just to get things kicked off. This Phoenix > BIOS boot problem has been alluded to in a couple of the > other mail messages on some of the other lists. It's an > annoyance but a tolerable one. Did you try to low-level format the drives? The cause is too sinister to verbalize. Try to swap drives beween machines too. Hint: BIOS-MBR-M$ Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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