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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dholmes.a2i!dholmes From: Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;) Date: 22 Jun 1996 23:47:47 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4qi0n3$5i1@samba.rahul.net> References: <31BD1390.54AB@bekkers.com.au> <4q08tj$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> <4qhg3i$1qq@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dholmes In <4qhg3i$1qq@samba.rahul.net> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> writes: >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.) I'm using a Promise 2300+ (VLB) in mine. When I switched to this controller (from a plain ol' cheap ISA IDE card) I had to disable the BIOS on the card--until I did this, the machine would hang at the point where the little twirly thing appears while the kernel is loading (just after the Boot: prompt). -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dennis Holmes dholmes@rahul.net | | San Jose, CA Disclaimer: I'm temporarily insane. | +------=>{ Meanwhile, as Ford said: "Where are my potato chips?" }<=------+