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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.gtn.com!knobel.gun.de!usenet From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Can't Boot FreeBSD after installation Date: 13 Apr 1996 12:56:46 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ko8ae$1qg@knobel.gun.de> References: <31541dac.35470247@newshost.cyberramp.net> <4j9dua$e3j@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.gun.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.5 In article <4j9dua$e3j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >hairy@hehe.haha (Hairy) writes: >> I've got a 486/100 system w/16mb RAM, and 850MB Conner drive (using a >> Promise 2300+ EIDE VLB controler). >> >> I can install 2.1.0 just fine (from a DOS Partition), but once >> installed and I try to boot from the Hard Drive the system hard locks. > >The Promise EIDE is known to be broken with FreeBSD. I think you have >to make it `dumb' (or something at this effect) in order to make it >FreeBSD-friendly. BTW, same is known for Windows NT ... ;-) Better go SCSI as usual ;-) -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<