From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 14:44:17 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 405D716A4CE; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A07943D39; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 28A015309; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:44:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 59C765308; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:44:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 29D9F33C9A; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:44:05 +0100 (CET) To: John Baldwin References: <200401161052.32551.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> <200401161454.00415.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200401161733.47751.jhb@FreeBSD.org> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:44:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200401161733.47751.jhb@FreeBSD.org> (John Baldwin's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:33:47 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: ss X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.61 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 22:44:17 -0000 John Baldwin writes: > 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 mode. Anything that supports 'LBA' mode supports packet mode > (that's what it is). Everything post 1994 supports LBA aka packet > mode. I think a PPro 200 is probably 1995 or later. :) OK, I stand corrected. Juan, BTW, just a shot in the dark: what kind of motherboard do you have? Could you check on the net if a BIOS upgrade is available for your motherboard? I had a similar problem when I first got a 40 GB disk (my ASUS motherboard only supported 32 GB disks, and hung during POST if it found a larger disk), but a BIOS upgrade fixed that (though I didn't know until I contacted ASUS, because it wasn't listed on the support page for my motherboard) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no