From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 14:06:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18633 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 14:06:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [204.118.149.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18620 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 14:06:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (wes@localhost) by intele.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id PAA11286; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:08:05 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199512092208.PAA11286@intele.net> Subject: Re: Western Digital boot failures To: dpk@eskimo.com (David Kirchner) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:08:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "David Kirchner" at Dec 9, 95 01:34:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I tried disabling the on-board BIOS on my Promise card, but that > didn't solve anything. Something that is totally baffeling(sp?) me is > that whenever I set the main partition to be active and then I reboot, it > is no longer active. Have you considered getting a different EIDE controller? When I bought my machine in January, they were $22, now they're about $11 or $12 for VL-BUS EIDE, floppy, 2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game; add $40 if you want 16550 serial ports. This might be a quick, cheap fix. > *Sigh*, I'm really going to hate having to go back to Win95 =( No, for God's sake, don't do that! You'd be better off dropping the computer on your head from a great height! -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffet