Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:55:13 -0700 From: Mikael Cederberg <mceder@airmail.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Screen totally messed up after reboot. Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971117095438.00693698@mail.airmail.net>
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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 My BIOS recognize the drive but is outdated so I can not use it in a DOS environment.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. I am stuck and have no idea what's going on! I did install Freebsd on my old DOS drive before and it worked fine! Any help or ideas what could be causing this would be much appreciated! Thanks, Mikael Cederberg
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