Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:16:00 -0600 From: Kenny Hanson <khanson@pdspc.com> To: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FW: 440LX Chipset Message-ID: <91DD7FDA88E4D011BED00000C0DD87E714DFCF@pds-gateway.pdspc.com>
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I want to thank all the responses I received dealing with the 440LX problem I was experiencing. Apparently this problem is unique with the Intel Atlanta board where the latest bios is not passing the boot drive number along to the bootstrap code (I hope I worded this right...). A gentleman passed along a patch to the biosboot code which takes care of this problem by forcing it to boot off the primary drive (drive 0x80). This fixed my problem and I am now cruising happily along at 300MHz :-). Kenny Hanson khanson@pdspc.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug White [SMTP:dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu] > Sent: Monday, November 24, 1997 2:07 PM > To: Kenny Hanson > Cc: Freebsd-Questions (E-mail) > Subject: Re: 440LX Chipset > > On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Kenny Hanson wrote: > > > Is there support for the 440LX chipset in FreeBSD yet? > > I have an Intel Atlanta 440LX with a PII 300 that I would > > love to see crank some FreeBSD, but two subsequent > > installs have failed miserably. I'm only guessing it's the > > chipset, though I always thought these things were "backwards > > compatible". For grins, here's what I have in the system: > > What were the problems you were seeing? > > I have an older email that indicates there are some BIOS bugs in the > 440LX > that prevent the system from booting properly. > > > Now I've tried to turn off the Ultra DMA in the bios and even tried > > a non-ATA33 drive with the same results. Any thoughts/comments? > > The Ultra33 drives are OK, they'll run fine in standard mode. If you > really want to tap them you have to run -current. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking > Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >
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