Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:12:53 +1100 From: Sam Wun <swun@eSec.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: boot & fdisk failed on 30G IBM HD Message-ID: <3A1C6F15.B55E3F6C@eSec.com.au> References: <NEBBIONCAPPDEJNFIAEGCEIDCAAA.freebsd@m2mtechnology.com>
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Hi, This is not the problem with FrreeBSD, but I thoguht you guys may familiar the problem and know how to solve it. I try to boot from my floppy A drive, but it takes a long time (about 4 minutes) before it REALLY start boot from the A drive. and then fdisk takes a long while to load into the memory for the first time. Even thought I have run and partitioned my 30G IBM into the C: drive, when I reboot my pc, it also repeat the problem, and the partition and C: drive disapear. Consequently, I can't get my Hard drive partition. I could hear the initial reading A drive when it try to boot from it, but after reading for a while, it goes silent for about 4 minutes before it really start booting. The board is a EPOX motherboard (DP-BX7+), and there is IBM 30G HD , a pc133 128M RAM, a pc100 128 RAM, I WILL scsi card, a LAN card, Nvida TNT2 graphic card on board. During boot, it recognised my IBM HD as a 30G hard drive. I set the boot sequence as A,C, SCSI. So it is trying to boot from my A floppy drive first, because I want to re-partition my IBM 30G HD. The floppy disk is a bootable DOS disk which is formatted from another Window 98 operating system. Your helps is greatly apprecated. Sam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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