From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 8: 0:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out.vma.verio.net (smtp-out.vma.verio.net [168.143.190.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D13E14BDD for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@clark.net) Received: from smtp-gw2.vma.verio.net ([168.143.0.22]) by smtp-out.vma.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10vMZ4-0003k3-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 10:57:50 -0400 Received: from minotaur (thomas.clark.net [168.143.2.191]) by smtp-gw2.vma.verio.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA17864 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:00:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990619110430.008b3520@pop3.clark.net> X-Sender: thomas@pop3.clark.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:04:30 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Mark Thomas Subject: Install problems - BIOS? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm currently doing an FTP install of a Micron P133 system. I suspect I've got one of the 'bad' BIOS's that won't deal with FreeBSD. Just hoping for some confirmation. The system: Micron P133 Millenia MB Phoenix BIOS V4.04 (Flashed to the most recent version) Adaptec 2940AU SCSI controller BIOS V1.30 Seagate ST15230N HD Iomega 1G Jaz Iomega 100M Zip Plextor CD-ROM 6x There are no other OS's on this system. I've tried all reasonable combinations of dedicated/partition geometries on the drive. I've tried with DOS/Other > 1 GB drive support in both the system and SCSI BIOS. W95/98 both install fine on this machine, so I don't suspect hardware. In all cases the install process works without apparent problems. It looks like all hardware detects correctly. With any setup that includes a 'dangerously dedicated' drive, the system fails to find the HD on reboot and reports 'Read Error' until a floppy is inserted. With a config that includes a non dedicated setup, the boot loader starts, with the choices: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 0 Default: F1 Selecting either results in a keyboard beep. Waiting for a timeout produces nothing. If anyone has any ideas, can confirm this is a BIOS problem, or sees something I've missed, I'd appreciate a heads up. Thanks, Mark --- thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pmpro.com/eldritch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message