Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 10:22:55 -0500 From: "William A. Gianopoulos" <gianowa@eo.ray.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Floppy won't boot if SIIG EIDE Master ISA+I/O card installed Message-ID: <32F7544F.41C67EA6@eo.ray.com>
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I recently picked up a used 486DX/33, and bought a 2.1 Gig hard disk for it. I had also planned to run FreeBSD on it using an old 120MB hard drive I happened to have lying around. This was mostly just to have a second FreeBSD machine, and to be able to use the 120MB drive for something. I booted the 2.1-RELEASE floppy and got it to the point where the installation menu came up, so I thought I was all set with FreeBSD, just put in a CD-ROM drive and it's all set. I then found that my BIOS would not support drives larger than 528MB, so I bought a SIIG EIDE Master ISA+I/O card, which has an on-board enhanced auto-detecting disk BIOS as well as 2 IDE interfaces, for 4 drives, 2 buffered serial ports, an enhanced parellel port and a game port. Kind of everything you need to upgrade all on one board using one slot. This cured all my DOS/Windows 95 problems. The problem is, that after installing this board, the FreeBSD boot floppy no longer boots! It reads something from the floppy then just sits there. I never get the "Boot:" prompt. Any ideas what's going on here? Do you know of a workaround? Is there some program I can run under DOS to do the equivalent of booting from the floppy (I assume its just a matter of reading the right amount of data from the floppy to the right memory location and then jumping there). If you do have a clue as to what's happening, would a boot from a hard drive work? I could just do the install on another machine and then move the drive. Any help would be appreciated. -- William A. Gianopoulos; Raytheon Company gianowa@eo.ray.com -------------------------------------------------------- This is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.
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