From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 13 23:29:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E0414C05 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:29:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA66642; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:28:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912140728.IAA66642@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: 4.0-CURRENT boot kernel, ATA_16BIT_ONLY , etc. In-Reply-To: <19991214012749.16573.qmail@web2101.mail.yahoo.com> from "Valentin S. Chopov" at "Dec 13, 1999 05:27:49 pm" To: valsho@yahoo.com (Valentin S. Chopov) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:28:56 +0100 (CET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Valentin S. Chopov wrote: > Hi, > > The latest 4.0-CURRENT boot floppies are not working > on old ISA boards with 16-bit data transfer only, and > the installation of FreeBSD becomes impossible:( . It > seems that in this case ATA_16BIT_ONLY is not enough - > may be flags to ata0 controller or auto-detection as > Soren promised will be O.K.?! If ATA_16BIT_ONLY doesn't do it, autodetection wont either. What is the exact problem, there is absolutely no info in your statement above?? Have you tried a verbose boot ?? How far does it get?? Hardware config?? -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message