Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 4 Aug 1997 09:43:10 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        leec@adam.adonai.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Packard Bell?
Message-ID:  <199708040743.JAA02887@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <199708032306.QAA02728@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 3, 97 04:06:12 pm"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > I asked about this a while ago and only got one reply from someone who
> > was (politely) questioning the mental state of anyone who would purchase
> > a pb machine.  Okay, I was stupid.  Now, has anyone put fbsd on a pb?  I
> > tried just doing an install, without success.  It just hangs at various
> > points (none of the 9 tries hung at the same spot) after all of the
> > setup screens and fs work, while copying blocks of data from the cd.
> 
> This question really belongs on -questions; however, if you posted it
> there, you wouldn't have gotten me (a mixed blessing, I'm told).
> 
> 
> You are likely running a CMD640B or otherwise buggy IDE controller
> and using the primary for the hard disk and the secondary for the
> CDROM.
> 
> If the machine has two IDE controllers, put the CDROM on one and the
> hard drive on the other.

No, don't. You do have a CMD640b controller. Put the HD as master
and the CDROM as slave on the primary channel.  Have a look at the
FAQ 3.21 and/or the HARDWARE.TXT on your CDROM.

Hope this helps

Wolfgang



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199708040743.JAA02887>