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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
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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 ;-)

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