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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:58:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Mikael Cederberg <mceder@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: Screen totally messed up after reboot.
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Mikael Cederberg wrote:

> Well, after trying to figure out what's going on, and getting desperate to
> get out of this microsoft hell... I got some problems.
> I recently got a new 3.4 gig EIDE hard drive. My BIOS recognize the drive
> but is outdated so I can not use it in a DOS environment. Someone mentioned
> to me that FreeBSD would look over this and be able to use it.. last night,
> I did the install from a boot floppy and got it to put a boot manager on
> both drives and setup the new drive for BSD. The primary  IDE controller
> got the DOS drive on it, and the secondary IDE controller got the FreeBSD
> drive on it as a master. It appeared to go very well installing everything
> and when it was all done I rebooted.. When it came up it asked me if I
> wanted to boot to DOS or to the second drive, it started booting up into
> freeBSD by loading the kernel of the right drive etc, but then my whole
> screen is filled with garbage signs or ascII junk in different colors and
> that's as far as I get. 

What's the details on the machine? Video card? Other hardware?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major