Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Filo <filo@yahoo.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel's AL440LX Board Message-ID: <199710171806.LAA25295@ns2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971017105845.3596F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> (message from Doug White on Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:00:25 -0700 (PDT))
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> > > 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. > As discussed on hackers, the problem turned out to be that the AL440LX BIOS does pass the correct drive info to the stage1 boot process. I have a hacked version of the bootblocks that works around this. If anyone else runs into this problem, let me know and I'll send you the patch. Hopefully Intel will fix this with later BIOS revs. David
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