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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:05:46 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/X11 on NEC Daylite?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010926110546.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <15280.49259.374816.666581@rast.cisco.com>

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On 25-Sep-2001 Richard Johnson wrote:
>  In this case, the system recognizes the drive and I can even install
>  FreeBSD on it with no problems, however when I try to boot from it I
>  see:
>       F1 DOS
>       F2 FreeBSD
>  and whichever one you select it simply beeps and does nothing.

I had this on a standalone system (Fbsd only) and found I had to force the BIOS
HD access mode to 'LBA' not 'auto'.

You could try boot0cfg -v /dev/ad0 -o packet

To tell boot0 to use packet mode instead.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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