Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:58:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mikael Cederberg <mceder@airmail.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen totally messed up after reboot. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117165833.11123G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971117095438.00693698@mail.airmail.net>
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Mikael Cederberg wrote: > Well, after trying to figure out what's going on, and getting desperate to > get out of this microsoft hell... I got some problems. > I recently got a new 3.4 gig EIDE hard drive. My BIOS recognize the drive > but is outdated so I can not use it in a DOS environment. Someone mentioned > to me that FreeBSD would look over this and be able to use it.. last night, > I did the install from a boot floppy and got it to put a boot manager on > both drives and setup the new drive for BSD. The primary IDE controller > got the DOS drive on it, and the secondary IDE controller got the FreeBSD > drive on it as a master. It appeared to go very well installing everything > and when it was all done I rebooted.. When it came up it asked me if I > wanted to boot to DOS or to the second drive, it started booting up into > freeBSD by loading the kernel of the right drive etc, but then my whole > screen is filled with garbage signs or ascII junk in different colors and > that's as far as I get. What's the details on the machine? Video card? Other hardware? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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