From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 17 11:00:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA26267 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA26250 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:00:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA03641; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:00:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: filo@yahoo-inc.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel's AL440LX Board In-Reply-To: <199710142214.PAA21605@ns2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, David Filo wrote: > Has anyone been successful in getting FreeBSD running on the Intel > AL440LX motherboard? We've tried both 2.1 and 3.0 and both have > problems. Booting from floppy works fine, but booting from the scsi > drive (after install) either gives "read error" in 2.1 or no message > at all under 3.0 immediately following the normal bios stuff. Hm, I've seen this intermittiently on some systems. It may be that the bootblocks were not properly installed. Try running `disklabel -B sd0' as root. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major