From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 16 06:57:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA21560 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 06:57:21 -0800 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA21317 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 06:52:33 -0800 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA22771 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 15:21:00 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 15:21:00 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199511161421.PAA22771@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: IDE/eIDE issues Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk For some installation tests I bought a brandnew Quantum Fireball640 (612 MB) thinking it would be least risky to use IDE/eIDE to install FreeBSD. But it turns out to be the most cumbersome installation I was doing ever :-( I can't the hell get it to boot. After several tries with 'missing operating system' results I finally got it to find the boot loader but when the kernel is being loaded all I can get is the first | from the twisting |/-\'s then hang. I tried with IDE, and two different eIDE (VLB) controller to no avail. Do I need to put special disk software that came with the controller to the disk first ? I always thought FreeBSD can cope with any disk geometry/IDE drive size as long as the partition can be reached from the BIOS. Looking back I find that I did only do mostly SCSI installations in the past and my (successful) IDE installations date back into times where common IDE drives used to have less than 1/2 GB. I tried to read the handbook first before coming up here but in fact the handbook is very sparse on (e)IDE. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de