From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 11 22:25:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0561114DCE for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1179.bossig.com [208.26.241.179]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA12478; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37897C46.E99C5264@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:25:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryce Newall Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Boot troubles References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bryce Newall wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > According to my rules, it isn't the new drive. You have something else > > that is broken otherwise the boot floppies would have worked. > > I downloaded the 3.1 floppies, and they worked great. For some reason, > though, the 3.2 floppies didn't like my system. However, someone already > helped me out and solved the problem -- turned out that it *was* the new > drive. Specifically, it was the fact that it was larger than 2 gigs, > which the BTX loader apparently has problems with. He suggested using a > "dangerously dedicated" partition, which I did, and that solved the > problem. I had similar problem with my original system. I don't know what the current MB, which is an Asus P2B-B, will do. The SuperMicro P5STE w/Award BIOS would simply lock up after counting the memory. It was if the BIOS and S.M.A.R.T. on the HD got into a hissing contest. The BIOS expected a response but the HD had gone catatonic on me. I re-added the MBR to the three Western Digital drives using the fdisk on a Win98 Startup disk and the problem went away. Kent > > ********************************************************************** > * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * > * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 32620929 * > * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * > ********************************************************************** -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message