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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!dfw.nkn.net!tower.nexus.com!andersen From: andersen@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Craig G. Andersen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Boot Trouble Revisted #3 Date: 2 Feb 1996 15:59:44 GMT Organization: National Knowledge Network Lines: 90 Message-ID: <4etcdg$klf@dfw.nkn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: fw91.fastlane.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have been having trouble booting FreeBSD (v2.1 and 2.0.5) using 'boot' floppies. My hardware listed below is not too out of the ordinary. The media turned out to be ok as I was able to boot these floppies on another machine (not mine). I broke down and bought the FreeBSD 2.1 CDROM - January 1996 thinking that might offer more alternatives. Anyway, the following was observed. All the options from 'view' were of no help (CDROM). Then I looked at the '*.bat' files on the E: (CDROM) directory and observed that they in general execute 'fbsdboot' and I found the 'options' by executing fbsdboot -u. As it turns out if I boot from the E:> prompt (not executing the batch file) it works ! For example ........ fbsdboot -v -D kernel (or kernel.ide). Anyway I am over one issue (yes the question of why the floppies don't work remains) and onto the next. The boot doesn't find the first EIDE disk but the second disk on the second channel. It does not find wdc0 at 1f0 IRQ 14 but the disk on wdc1 at 170 IRQ 15 ? I will continue to check other things but if someone has ideas on the following it would be appreciated. 1) Does 2.1 support EIDE (dual channel) ? 2) The first disk is a WD 31200F with geometry of 2484/16/63, and of course the BIOS has 621/64/63, is this a problem ? I noticed that in the disk stuff one can specify C/H/S. 3) Is the geometry mismatch with the BIOS causing the drive not to be recognized (there is a tool ide_conf.exe that was no help) ? Using the -c option of fbsdboot all extra hardware was eliminated except floppies and hard disks and it still would not recognize wdc0. The 'fbsdboot' doesn't seem to have the 'probe' option that is written in the 'boot' floppies documentation (INSTALL.TXT). The hardware is working for D*S/W*95/Linux and does boot NetBSD 'boot' floppies (just observations). Anyway hopefully this info may help someone else struggling as I am to get the kernel up. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 486 DX2/50 Dell Dimension/8Mb RAM/ISA Bus ON BOARD Graphics WD90C31 1Mb Graphics Memory Serial #1 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 Serial #2 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 Parallel Port (Not used) ----------------------------------------------------------------- EXTERNAL Modems: Serial #3 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Cardinal MVP288I (V.34/V.FC) Serial #4 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Sportster 14.4k Mouse: PS/2 auxiliary pointing device SB16 snd2 <SoundBlaster 16 4.12> at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 snd6 <SoundBlaster 16 4.12> at 0x220 irq 5 drq 5 snd7 <SoundBlaster MPU-401> at 0x330 irq 5 drq 0 snd1 <Yamaha OPL-3 FM> at 0x388 drq 0 CDROM SB16 Drive 0 (ID=0): CR-563 (0.75) at 0x230 (type 1) Hard Disks SIIG EIDE Master ISA Dual Channel Controller Channel 1: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 WDC AC31200F, 1222MB w/64KB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63 Channel 2: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 MAXTOR LXT-340A, 321MB w/64KB Cache, CHS=654/16/63 TEAC FD-505 Combo Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M FDC 0 is a 8272A 3COM Ethernet 3c509 at 0x300 IRQ 10. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- --------------------------- - Craig Andersen - - andersen@fastlane.net - ---------------------------