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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dhesi.a2i!dhesi From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;) Date: 22 Jun 1996 19:04:18 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4qhg3i$1qq@samba.rahul.net> References: <31BD1390.54AB@bekkers.com.au> <4q08tj$jju@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q0umm$l6l@baygull.rtd.com> <4q1kcp$1mc@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q29eq$33k_002@news.livenet.net> <4q2lfe$ai0@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q3m32$35v@dyson.iquest.net> <4qgo5n$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dhesi In <4qgo5n$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >This is far beyond the point where it will become FreeBSD-specific, >John. He's got problems in loading the first 15 sectors off his boot >floppy (which is done by the BIOS). I experienced similar symptoms when using a second IDE controller (brand "Promise"). No prompt from the FreeBSD boot disk. My solution was to always boot from ms-dos via fbsdboot. That made it work ok. (Even building a customized ATAPI kernel did not allow direct boots.) >The best we can do at this point is ignoring this guy. He doesn't >even seem to _want_ help. This is almost certainly true. -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> "please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>