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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!news.cc.uic.edu!icarus.cc.uic.edu!rory From: Rory Imua Lampert <rory@uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on EIDE Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 22:41:37 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Lines: 39 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951212200319.1109A-100000@icarus.cc.uic.edu> References: <49a6up$3db@masala.cc.uh.edu> <49jr5n$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.SUN.3.90.951205110117.4640D-100000@hurricane.cs.odu.edu> <4a7kpi$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: icarus.cc.uic.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: rory@icarus.cc.uic.edu In-Reply-To: <4a7kpi$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> Hi, this is kind of tangential to the discussion in place. I recently purchased a SIIG EDIE VLB controller with on board BIOS. I have a WD31000 and a WD2250. I had 2.0.5 working on my older VLB IDE controller just fine...well, not quite. I needed at least 400 meg dedicated to DOS, the rest would go to FBSD. I had to make the 250M drive (wd0) the master so the Windows swap file would work correctly since I had no diskmanager and couldn't use it on the 1gig (wd1). So this is what I did. On wd0, the first 249M for dos; 1M for FBSD swap partition (wouldn't let me put an mbr on wd0 without FBSD on it somewhere), 150MB for dos on wd1 and the rest for FBSD. This worked fine, although it annoyed me that everytime I booted, I had to type wd(1,a)/kernel to boot FBSD off the second drive where / was located. I decided to get the new controller and upgrade to 2.1-R so I could get my Teac CD-55 something-or-other IDE/ATAPI CDROM to work. This is the current mess I'm in. I installed FBSD 2.1R, made the 1gig master and the 250M slave. I allocated 400M for dos on the 1gig (now wd0) and left everything else to FBSD. Dos boots just fine and installed the neato driver for dos for the controller and it works. Now I booted off the FBSD floppy, did an entire install of FBSD off of the dos partition and everything went just fine with the install (still didn't detect the cd-rom *sigh*). I installed the FBSD bootmanager and rebooted. I got the boot menu, hit F2 for FBSD, then, my hard drive clicked, over and over, didn't even get the boot prompt. I reinstalled, with a 50 meg root partition out of paranoia that my root partition went over the 1024th cylinder. Reinstalled, same thing. Someone told me it was because EIDE wasn't supported, I thought this meant that EIDE's "wonderful" features weren't used, but you could at least boot the sucker! Am I totally wrong about this? If I can't get FBSD to boot I'm taking the controller back, I'd really like to keep it, anyone have any ideas about what I can do. You can mail me personally. Let me know if I've left anything important or juicey out. Thanks. Rory Imua Lampert ADN/CSO Consultant University of Illinois at Chicago rory@uic.edu