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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.us.world.net!news.aus.world.net!usenet From: mikel@bns.com.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems Booting from Adaptec 1542 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 96 17:12:32 PDT Organization: AUSNet Services pty. ltd. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <NEWTNews.825988738.27557.tns@ausnet.world.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: melb30.world.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage G'Day, I have a 486dx33 with 16meg of RAM using an Adaptec 1542 SCSI with three devices: Segate 520 Meg Segate 1024 Meg WangDat 3400DX I have been using this system quite happily for a week or two now, but today, after using it for about half an hour, I turned off the system and went back to it about half an hour later, when I booted the machine, the kernel happily proceeded past the SCSI drive identification correctly, but then hung on "changing root device to sd0a" Someone suggested that I disable above 16 Meg seek in my computer bios, but my motherboard bios does not have that feature. Are there any other suggestions out there? I am using a custom kernel and have tried to boot from the generic kernel. The system will boot from the sysinstall boot disk. Thanks in advance, I will monitor this newsgroup for replys but would appriciate any email responces. Regards and Salutations Mikel Lindsaar mikel@bns.com.au