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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news-ge.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!studenti.ing.unipi.it!s141075 From: Marco Guidi <s141075@studenti.ing.unipi.it> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD boot problems Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:49:40 +0000 Organization: Universita' di Pisa Lines: 49 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970701142150.2071A-100000@studenti.ing.unipi.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: studenti.ing.unipi.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43762 First of all : sorry for my English; I have the following problem booting FreeBSD 2.1.0 (I absolutely need this version of FreeBSD): I have an Intel 486 CPU 33MHz; I have a Conner 850MB HD configured as second HD and an IBM 170MB HD configured as bootable HD (it seems impossible to configure the IBM HD as second HD : bios is not able to see it); if I try to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 on a partition on my 850 MB HD configured as second HD, at boot time I can see the following message NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HANG This is the same message I can see if I try to turn on my PC without any partitions neither DOS nor others on my bootable HD. If I try to configure my 850MB HD as bootable disk (loosing my 170MB HD) and installing FreeBSD on the entire 850MB HD, at boot time I can get the FreeBSD Boot: prompt, but the cursor (which should start to spin) remain in its initial vertical posizion. Before booting, my PC asks me if I want a Turbo, Fast or Normal boot mode; I know that at our department at the University of Pisa (Italy) a PC was having a problem similar to mine and the installers solved it choosing Normal boot mode rather than Turbo boot mode (it seems that if you choose Turbo boot mode, some processors load at boot time some informations in memory from HD; theese informations that are needed for booting are overwritten by FreeBSD so that the machine is "getting confused"). With my PC this kind of solution didn' t work. If someone may give me some good advice, I' ll be gratefull. Thank you. Marco Guidi my emails : guidi@labcal2.iet.unipi.it (131.114.9.126) s141075@studenti.ing.unipi.it (131.114.9.29)