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From: Mike Meredith <hmv@meredithm.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Booting Problems
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:04:00 +0100
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Hi

About a week ago, my very ancient P90-based system (running FreeBSD 
4.3RC(something)) blew up with sufficient force to destroy the SCSI 
controller (an NCR810). I replaced the SCSI controller with an old 
Adaptec 2940, and tinkered with the BIOS to see if it could boot off 
the system disk and it just hung at what I think is the boot0 stage.

After a bit of fiddling, I managed to get it to boot off a set of 
floppies. I've re-built the kernel to support the new(!) SCSI 
controller, and the system is running fine once I've got past the 
booting stage.

Ive tried replacing the boot[012] stages with 'disklabel -B xxx' and 
'boot0cfg -B', and there weren't any errors.

Has anyone got any ideas which might help ? Particularly the right 
settings for the Adaptec BIOS and/or necessary commands that I've 
missed ?

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