From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 21:47:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA22584 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.180]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA22572 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00266; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:46:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: ALHACK@am.pnu.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD disk drivers In-Reply-To: <1ed33f50@am.pnu.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jul 1996 ALHACK@am.pnu.com wrote: > I loaded FreeBSD 2.1.0 (in a user configuration) on a computer with about a > 500MB drive in a dual boot mode with DOS. Both BSD and DOS work well. > > When I tried to load BSD on another computer (dual boot mode) with a 1083.8 > MB drive the system seems to load but will not boot. Some preliminary > verbage is displayed and then the "Boot:" is displayed (seems normal so > far). Then the "bar" is displayed but does not "spin" - the system just > hangs. Yes, DOS still boots! > > The controller is a Promise EIDE2300 PLUS VESA Local Bus with on board BIOS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is it. The Promise is not compatible with FreeBSD. Replace it with another IDE controller. (Some suggest to disable the onboard BIOS but this doesn't always work) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major