From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 15:27:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA03049 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 15:27:27 -0800 Received: from vegemite.Stanford.EDU (2842@vegemite.Stanford.EDU [36.159.0.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA03044 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 15:27:19 -0800 Received: (hlew@localhost) by vegemite.Stanford.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.4) id PAA21950; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 15:27:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 15:26:58 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE problems... In-Reply-To: <199511211351.LAA27136@alpha.coe.ufrj.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'd like to say good work guys! I really enjoy this continuing work on a great OS. Okay... I'm not sure if this is a FreeBSD-specific problem or a hardware incompatibility problem.... but here goes... Using boot.flp on a 3.5 inch disk in Drive A seems to work quite well on most systems. But I've run into 1 major problem for the installation on a machine at work. I just upgraded an older 486 System to use an EIDE hard disk (Western Digital 1.6Gig to be specific) with a DTC 2278EB (with enhanced rom bios to do LBA because the computer does not support LBA). I intended to use the 1.6 Gig Western Digital Drive for both Win95 and FreeBSD. Okay, so the problem is that the computer can not boot the FreeBSD boot disk. It doesn't even get to the part about prompting for the hard drive or floppy. It just hangs after trying to boot the boot.flp disk. Drive C is the 1.6Gig WD with controller LBA on and Drive D is a 340MB WD with controller LBA off. But an interesting observation is if I disable both hard drives from the CMOS, I can boot FreeBSD... (but of course, then I wouldn't be able to install FreeBSD). Another other combination does not seem to work. Is there any hope of installing FreeBSD on this system? Or is the DTC 2278 EB controller just incompatible? Thanks in advance for any help.