From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 16 14:52:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA13485 for current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA13411 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:51:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA03625; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 23:51:26 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA18220; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 23:51:25 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id XAA05373; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 23:41:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602162241.XAA05373@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [HELP] Cannot boot To: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 23:41:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602161739.MAA14717@sloop.cis.ufl.edu> from "sycheng@cis.ufl.edu" at Feb 16, 96 12:39:15 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As sycheng@cis.ufl.edu wrote: > Sure. I've tried to disable LBA mode from BIOS, or Promise card, or both, > but none worked. Besides, I need to use DOS/Windows sometime so I don't think > I will disable LBA mode even it works. You can safely disable it as long as your DOS/Winglows, and the root partition of FreeBSD, reside below the ficticous cylinder 1024. Sorry, no further clues about this Promise card. I don't have VLB, and i only have just a single IDE disk in my notebook. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)