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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 1996 23:41:04 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        sycheng@cis.ufl.edu
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [HELP] Cannot boot
Message-ID:  <199602162241.XAA05373@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602161739.MAA14717@sloop.cis.ufl.edu> from "sycheng@cis.ufl.edu" at Feb 16, 96 12:39:15 pm

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As sycheng@cis.ufl.edu wrote:

>   Sure. I've tried to disable LBA mode from BIOS, or Promise card, or both, 
> but none worked. Besides, I need to use DOS/Windows sometime so I don't think
> I will disable LBA mode even it works.

You can safely disable it as long as your DOS/Winglows, and the root
partition of FreeBSD, reside below the ficticous cylinder 1024.

Sorry, no further clues about this Promise card.  I don't have VLB,
and i only have just a single IDE disk in my notebook.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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