Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:25:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot troubles Message-ID: <37897C46.E99C5264@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9907112045340.37787-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bryce Newall wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > According to my rules, it isn't the new drive. You have something else > > that is broken otherwise the boot floppies would have worked. > > I downloaded the 3.1 floppies, and they worked great. For some reason, > though, the 3.2 floppies didn't like my system. However, someone already > helped me out and solved the problem -- turned out that it *was* the new > drive. Specifically, it was the fact that it was larger than 2 gigs, > which the BTX loader apparently has problems with. He suggested using a > "dangerously dedicated" partition, which I did, and that solved the > problem. I had similar problem with my original system. I don't know what the current MB, which is an Asus P2B-B, will do. The SuperMicro P5STE w/Award BIOS would simply lock up after counting the memory. It was if the BIOS and S.M.A.R.T. on the HD got into a hissing contest. The BIOS expected a response but the HD had gone catatonic on me. I re-added the MBR to the three Western Digital drives using the fdisk on a Win98 Startup disk and the problem went away. Kent > > ********************************************************************** > * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * > * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 32620929 * > * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * > ********************************************************************** -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?37897C46.E99C5264>