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From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
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Cc: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: freebsd has problems with bios
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On 10/13/05, Kamal R. Prasad <kamalp@acm.org> wrote:
> I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may
> be unstable.
> I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve
> the problem.
> Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with freebsd.
>
> regards
> -kamal
>


In fact FreeBSD bypasses BIOS and interacts directly
with a disk controller. Could you tell us the exact vendor
and make of your motherboard. It's an interesting case.


Thanks,
Andrew P.