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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!sp2joap1 From: sp2joap1@ite.his.se (Joacim Persson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problems with bootup Date: 9 May 1996 21:46:50 GMT Organization: Solace Computer Society, Sundsvall Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4mtp4a$642@fizban.solace.mh.se> References: <318D39AB.47FF@unixg.ubc.ca> <4mq9s9$86l@fizban.solace.mh.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: flygel.ite.his.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Joacim Persson (sp2joap1@ite.his.se) wrote: : Do you have a Promise EIDE card with a bootprom on by any chance? : I have, and apparently there's some trouble with those. I don't know : exactly what yet, I just got the tip. : bbl Turned out the PROM screws up the geometry at boot time. I don't know the strap settings for disabling the prom, so I just removed the prom. Works great now.