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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!nntp.teleport.com!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ahc0/ahc1 oddity Date: 7 Oct 1996 04:27:13 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 40 Message-ID: <53apeh$pmq@itchy.serv.net> References: <52poiu$6fg@itchy.serv.net> <5365qd$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <5365qd$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) wrote: > >> I posted this once before , but got no responses. > >You're posting this now as a wrong followup to an unrelated article. >I almost discarded your posting as being part of a thread i have not >been interested in. > >Better learn how to post before... (I've dropped the bad references >so the thread display should be okay now.) For one thing, I don't appreciate being flamed as some sort of net newbie just because I'm a little careless with one reference. I've been building WWW servers since 1993 and posting to usenet since 1988. For another thing, you didn't read the post. Swapping the controllers has the exact same effect ; the kernel assigns ahc0 correctly, but the BIOS boots off of what would be ahc1, so there's not a correct boot sector or kernel. The fundamental problem is that the controller that the bios & kernel come from is the opposite controller as to what's assigned to ahc0. swapping the controllers doesn't help the problem. For the moment, I've got a small bootable kernel on ahc1 which is the actual running kernel. it's kind of a pain though. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson