From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 14:59:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA03976 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:59:28 -0700 Received: from system1.indecent.com (system1.indecent.com [204.95.227.58]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA03961 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:59:24 -0700 Received: (from partek@localhost) by system1.indecent.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA07222; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:50:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:50:58 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller In-Reply-To: <199508301948.MAA00372@ref.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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