From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 10:49:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07581 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ref.tfs.com ([206.245.251.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA07572 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pompano.pcola.gulf.net (root@[198.69.72.14]) by ref.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15918 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pompano.pcola.gulf.net (spatula@localhost.gulf.net [127.0.0.1]) by pompano.pcola.gulf.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25082; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 12:48:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 12:48:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Johnson X-Sender: spatula@pompano.pcola.gulf.net To: Gary Chrysler cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.1.5 floppy In-Reply-To: <3229BCAB.2B89@ime.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > Don't know if this it it, But I belive I have read several times > on this list that having more then 16 megs RAM during install > can cause it to fail.. > Try knocking it down to 16megs for the install, Then compile a > kernel with >16M support, then stick it all back in. I found the problem after a little trial and error: With my particular Pentium motherboard (an Asus) I have built-in IO controllers, and the option in the BIOS to swap drives A/B. The kicker is that you can either make the swap in the BIOS or make the swap in the controller. I had been swapping just in the BIOS, so I changed it to swap only in the controller. It worked perfectly once I had made the change. Well, almost perfectly... Sprintlink's routing spasms are keeping me from being able to FTP the distribution... Nick -- _ _ _ _ | \ | (_) ___| | __ Gulf Coast Internet Tech Support 438-5700 ext 400 | \| | |/ __| |/ / http://www.gulf.net/support/ (online tech. help) | |\ | | (__| < http://www.gulf.net/~spatula (personal homepage) |_| \_|_|\___|_|\_\ http://www.gulf.net/~spatula/linux/ (linux resources)