Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:23:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: blizzard@canoe.ca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD destroys hardware 2 Message-ID: <199605211823.LAA01609@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <31A1ECED.1E7A@canoe.ca> from "Dave Blizzard" at May 21, 96 11:18:53 am
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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. I just answered this one under the subject "Install boo-boo". > I have low level formated the drives, repartitioned, attempted fdisk > /mbr which is undocumented and apparently does nothing, used Nortones > rescue to reload the boot partition and got nowhere. Yeah, well, if you had OnTrack on it, you will need to put it back on. The Norton rescue stuff goes through INT 13, so it's no suprise that it can't see the INT 13 redirector (Norton is dumb). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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