Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:52:08 +0000 From: "Brian Candler" <B.Candler@dial.pipex.com> To: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot problem Message-ID: <199606061303.OAA10474@typhoon.dial.pipex.net>
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> > Boot: {here I hit Enter}
> > |
>
> Wild guess; You have a Promise 2300 EIDE controller? There are known
> problems with this controller, but I don't think an easy fix is
> possible as it involves disabling the cards BIOS. I'm not even sure if
> anyone has figured out WHY the BIOS boot loader hangs ... it
> shouldn't.
I disabled the on-board BIOS (changed JP3 from 111 to 000) and FreeBSD
booted fine - but then Windows 95 didn't!! Might that be because the W95
partition is the last 500MB of a 1.2GB disk, and hence W95's boot block is
not in the first 504MB? (The Promise BIOS was able to cope with that,
though)
Is this a mess, or what?! :-{
Brian.
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