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Date:      Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:00:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        filo@yahoo-inc.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Intel's AL440LX Board
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971017105845.3596F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199710142214.PAA21605@ns2.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, David Filo wrote:

> Has anyone been successful in getting FreeBSD running on the Intel
> AL440LX motherboard?  We've tried both 2.1 and 3.0 and both have
> problems.  Booting from floppy works fine, but booting from the scsi
> drive (after install) either gives "read error" in 2.1 or no message
> at all under 3.0 immediately following the normal bios stuff.

Hm, I've seen this intermittiently on some systems.  It may be that the
bootblocks were not properly installed. Try running `disklabel -B sd0' as
root.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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