From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 15:17:28 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 15:17:25 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEF637B402 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:17:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from earthlink.net (user-2ivf56c.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.148.204]) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22207 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:17:23 -0800 (PST) Sender: root@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net Message-ID: <3A3803DD.241A7B3D@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:18:53 -0500 From: Michael Vang X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot sequence errors... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I haven't been able to determine what the following error messages mean, or how to fix them... I've searched all of the list archives and Deja... bios32: Bad BIOS32 Service Directory I have no idea what this one means... My understanding was that the BIOS wasn't needed this late in the boot process... ad0: 4112MB [8912/15/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 (null): MODE_SENSE_BIG - UNIT ATTENTION asc=29 ascq=00 error=04 ad0 doesn't really run at WDMA2... I had to bump it down to PIO (hopefully 4?) using sysctl because I have a flaky controller (ViperM)... I also had to make a small / partition to get loader to work... Without the small / partition the system would boot, but top would not work and there was a loader error message during (I think) stage 1 of the boot process... I'm guessing the 1024 cylinder limit was at play there... The system runs fine even with these 2 errors... Uptime is limited only by my local power company's ability to keep juice flowing... If anyone has a clue where I should look for answers I would appreciate a reply... Thanks! -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message