Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:50:58 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson <partek@indecent.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950830150130.5539A-100000@system1.indecent.com> In-Reply-To: <199508301948.MAA00372@ref.tfs.com>
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On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > well the boot uses the BIOS to do it's work, so it's unlikely that it > was unable to read anything... > The bios got that far; it's unlikely to fail at that point.. > possibilities.. > your BIOS might use some non-standard memory location (e.g. just below 640K) > that might be getting over-written in the boot.. (unlikely as we > have cleared up most of those problems) I tried with both the HDC's BIOS and using the PC's BIOS. I know the controller's BIOS puts itself at the address DC000H. I'm not sure what the normal BIOS uses.. > the MBR (block 0) might have inconsistant data in it.. I thought about that, but after 5 installs, don't you think the MBR would've been written to right at least once? > the disklabel might be incorrect I don't quite understand this disklabel thing.. In 80 words or less(or point me to a FAQ), what is it? :) > from the install, if you do it a second time, > does it find the partitions etc, from the previous attempt? > (it won't know where to mount them, but it should at least find them..) Yeah, it found them. Thanks, Dave
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