From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 17 14:39:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16004 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15999 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA22216 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id QAA23580; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:22:38 -0500 Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma023578; Tue Sep 17 17:22:25 1996 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 17 Sep 96 17:22:31 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 17 Sep 96 17:22:15 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:22:06 +0500 Subject: Triton I Triton II boot problem Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk SCO and Adaptec have been less than helpful on this problem so I though I might ask here since the level of hardware knowledge is very high in this group. At work, we were trying to move an Adaptec 2940 w. hard disk from an ASUS Triton I based motherboard to an ASUS P55T2P4 (HX chipset). We are getting the following error messages: > not a directory > > boot not found > Cannot open > Stage 1 boot failure: error loading hd(40)/boot Note that both the controller and hard disk are the same - only the motherboard has changed. DOS > 1 GIG is off on both configurations. An identical drive with SCO loaded from this machine works fine. Any ideas? I suspect it is a geometry problem but why does it change if the adapter BIOS (and setup) is the same. Is this some spawned-in-hell PnP "feature"? Please don't flame me - you know I do not use this OS by choice. I'm FreeBSD friendly 8) Thanks. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================