Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:59:53 -0700 From: Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com> To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> Cc: Matt Meola <mmeola@uswest.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Having both SCSI and IDE hard disks... Message-ID: <37B2EF79.EC1B4DB0@criterion-group.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908120926240.23673-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------40E27519F90E32A93163B720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What make/model of drive is wd0? I don't know much in the way of *BSD-related fixes, but this sounds suspiciously like a hardware issue we ran into a couple of months ago with a Western Digital Caviar drive and an older (+/- 1 year-old) Award BIOS. Simply put, it refused to boot when jumpered as "Master" (it was the only IDE device on that controller). What we ultimately had to do was jumper it as "Only" and from then on it worked fine. Sorry if this was a wasted message; I'm coming into this thread a little late so I'm missing a bit of background on your issue. Hope this helps. RAB Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Matt Meola wrote: > > [snip] > > > I've tried: > > o A 4G partition for Ebola95, with th rest for FreeBSD; > > o Dangerously dedicated FreeBSD on the whole EIDE drive; > > o FreeBSD consuming all of wd0, but not "dangerously dedicated". > > > > In each case, booteasy simply won't allow me to boot FreeBSD from wd0. > > I've got an Award BIOS, which allows me to boot from the SCSI drive > > first; a real life-saver. If I do that, then I get an "F5 drive 2" > > prompt, along with the normal "F1 Dos" and "F2 FreeBSD" prompts. > > > > With dangerously dedicated mode, if I hit F5, I'll get "F1 FreeBSD" and > > "F5 drive 1"; F1 does nothing (actually, the menu comes up again). > > > > With an MBR on wd0, booteasy just beeps at me when I try to boot > > FreeBSD from that drive. > > Have you tried using osbsbeta.exe from the tools directory on disk one? > > Vince. > -- > ========================================================================== > Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null > # include <std/disclaimers.h> TEAM-OS2 > Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com > Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com > ========================================================================== > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------40E27519F90E32A93163B720 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rbettle.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Roy Bettle Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rbettle.vcf" begin:vcard n:Bettle;Roy tel;work:(949) 452-1203 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.criterion-group.com org:Criterion Group, Inc. version:2.1 email;internet:rbettle@criterion-group.com title:President note:Businesses that depend on computers, depend on us. adr;quoted-printable:;;26895 Aliso Creek Road=0D=0ASuite B404;Aliso Viejo;CA;92656;USA fn:Bettle, Roy end:vcard --------------40E27519F90E32A93163B720-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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