From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 01:10:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA27819 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:10:45 -0700 Received: from system1.indecent.com (system1.indecent.com [204.95.227.58]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA27807 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:10:39 -0700 Received: (from partek@localhost) by system1.indecent.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id DAA01282; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:02:12 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:02:11 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller In-Reply-To: <6511.809816665@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Try this (with LBA off): > Install DOS on just a small (5MB or so) chunk at the beginning. You > may find this chunk useful in the future anyway since you can put DOS > based diagnostics and such there. Now install FreeBSD on the rest of > the space, allowing it to get the geometry from the DOS partition. > Let me know what happens. Well, it didn't work. I disabled the external BIOS on the EIDE controller like a few people had mentioned to me, and that seems to have worked. The only problem I had is that it doesn't write the MBR properly. I get a "NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED" on boot.. So I boot from the floppy with the wd(1,a)/kernel thing and it works fine. I had only installed the bin and manpages packages, so the system was too limited to use much. Though at least I know it works now. I'm going to stick with Linux for now, and order the FreeBSD CD from Walnut Creek when I get some extra money. BTW, it'd probably be a good idea to compile support for PPP(So pppd can be used instead of that archaic ppp program) into the GENERIC kernel. Also, there's a really kewl thing for Linux that I don't think I could live without called gpm. If you're not familiar with it, what it does is lets you copy and paste stuff on a text screen with the mouse. It's wonderful for those hard to type or rediculously long filenames. Is there such an animal for FreeBSD? Thanks, Dave