From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 14:33:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD8316A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:33:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EDE43D53 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9157 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2004 22:33:27 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Jan 2004 22:33:27 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.206 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0GMX4MA089506; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:33:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:33:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401161052.32551.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> <200401161454.00415.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401161733.47751.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: Juan Rodriguez Hervella cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:33:36 -0000 On Friday 16 January 2004 05:17 pm, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > John Baldwin writes: > > You need to enable packet mode in boot0 for it to work. > > I think the problem here is that his BIOS doesn't support packet mode. If his BIOS sees that the disk is larger than 540 mb, it supports packet mo= de. =20 Anything that supports 'LBA' mode supports packet mode (that's what it is).= =20 Everything post 1994 supports LBA aka packet mode. I think a PPro 200 is=20 probably 1995 or later. :) =2D-=20 John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =3D http://www.FreeBSD.org