Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 18:12:37 -0800 (PST) From: Howard <howard@genome.stanford.edu> To: David Kirchner <dpk@eskimo.com> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Western Digital boot failures Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951208181201.760A-100000@junia.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951208145909.20845A-100000@eskimo.com>
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On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, David Kirchner wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Doug White wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, David Kirchner wrote: > > > > My drive is an 850MB EIDE drive by Western Digital and I am using > > > the 'other OS compatibility' option. It has two small unused partitions > > > around it in the partitioning table editor. > > > > You imply this is the second disk on the first IDE controller. Is this > > true? What is the configuration of your disks? > > I'm sorry, it is the first and only disk. I used that 'other OS > compatibility' option in fdisk because it suggested I did that when I > typed 'A' to automatically use the whole disk. > > I also forgot to mention, I have a Promise EIDE 2300+ controller > and I noticed while browsing through the mail archives that this card was > mentioned several times, unfortunately, not one message (that I found) > ever said what to do to get it to work. One person mentioned disabling > the on-board BIOS, but I cannot find how to do that in my manual. Also, > if it matters, I'm running an AMD 486DX4-120 (who knows, it might be > causing the problems...) with Award BIOS. > > > > > > When I use the booteasy option, I keep hitting F1 over and over, > > > nothing ever happens other than repeating the "BSD F?" banner. > > > > As a note, booteasy will not start FreeBSD off the second disk without > > some reprogramming. You can use OS-BS or any other boot manager if you > > need to boot off the second disk. (I use OS/2's Boot Manager and it > > works great.) > > I love the name of that, OS-BS, heh, when did Microsoft start > making a boot manager? ;) > > Maybe I'll start using that when I get two drives, I just want > this one working. > > -- David Kirchner > -- dpk@eskimo.com -- http://www.eskimo.com/~dpk/ -- > Are you using Ontrack DM?
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