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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dhesi.a2i!dhesi From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 11 May 1996 20:59:13 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4n2v31$9th@samba.rahul.net> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <4mr1pk$cdi@dyson.iquest.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> <3194622D.41C67EA6@Ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dhesi In <3194622D.41C67EA6@Ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> "Yun-Ching (Allen) Lee" <yunching@Ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> writes: >The only problem I had with FreeBSD installation was it conflicted with >my Promise EIDE MAX's BIOS. As I was troubleshooting the problem, I >found out I really didn't need the card to get maximum performance out >of my 1 GB drive, so it didn't matter to me. FYI, I added the EIDE MAX card from Promise to my 386 box so I could attach a CD-ROM drive to it. After this FreeBSD would no longer boot directly, even after rebuilding an ATAPI kernel. HOWEVER this has not proven to be a problem for me: I just boot MS-DOS and then boot FreeBSD via the FBSDBOOT.EXE command. Works nicely. -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> "please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>