Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 19:30:06 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: blizzard@canoe.ca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD destroys hardware? Message-ID: <199605220230.TAA01688@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 May 1996 11:06:22 CDT." <31A1E9FE.70BE@canoe.ca>
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-------- > After installing FreeBSD successfully on several pentiums I thought > I'd give my 386 at home a try. > I installed a new SCSI 1gb hard drive and attempted to install BSD on > the SCSI drive while leaving my 400mb IDE drive untouched. > The operation went great but the patient died > Installation went smoothly but I chose to have the boot mgr installed > and the result was an unbootable dos drive. After doing the same with > another IDE drive and controller the only conclusion is that the > boormanager destroys controllers. It's either that or the bootmgr > modifies hidden registers in the controller that can't be reset. Could you elaborate on "an unbootable dos drive"? Did you get an error like "missing operating system" or "NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED"? Did you try a DOS boot floppy? 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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