Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:48:54 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@demon.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel DK440LX m/b Message-ID: <35645AF6.74B8423C@tdx.co.uk> References: <895769007.0012774.0@office.demon.net>
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Geoff Buckingham wrote: > I seem to be seeing exactly the same thing with the DK440LX board I have. > Does anybody have this working without CAM? (No onboard SCSI obviously) > > I have installed 2.2.6 to both a seagate drive hanging off an adaptec 3940 > and to an IDE disk on the onboard controller, in both cases I either get > a read error if I have dedicated the disk to FreeBSD or 'missing operating > system' if I have installed with dos style partitions. It's as if the BIOS > refuses to boot a 165 partition from hard disk, this seems unlikly as it > boots the floppy fine. Someone did some quite extensive research into this a while ago - and boiled it down to the BIOS not passind the ID of the drive it wants to boot off in a certain register... There was a 'patch' for it... I've even seen the same thing on some boxes I've setup - but I got around it by installing with a non-dedicated disk (make sure your installing a bootloader if you do this - or you'll get the dreaded 'missing operating system'... Try searching the archives for 'read error' etc.? Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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