Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 10:10:10 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Nik Clayton <Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with 2.0.5 950622 SNAP Message-ID: <199507011710.KAA25417@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 95 17:45:34 BST." <4626.9507011645@mishmash.brunel.ac.uk>
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>BIOS > Anticipating that this might be causing problems, I've investigated > the options. At the moment, the BIOS is configured for a SCSI disk, > (although these problems remain if I tell the machine's BIOS that there > is no disk attached (and hence no geometry), and let the controller BIOS > handle it) and the controller has Host Adapter BIOS turned *ON*. If I > turn this option off then the BIOS refuses to see the disk at boot time. > Since this is my only boot disk it's kinda critical to have it on... The system BIOS should have no entry for attached drives. The system BIOS is only used for IDE interfaces. Since you are booting off of the 2940, you must enable its BIOS. > ... however, I have turned "Extended BIOS translation for DOS Drives > > 1GB" off. As far as I know, this should remove any problems, > particularly since the DOS partition is completely below the 1Gb > limit. If you partitioned your disk under DOS with Extended BIOS translation on, then you will totally confuse FreeBSD by turing it off. FreeBSD will take the geometry from the BIOS, it will conflict with the geometry (255/64/8192) used to set the DOS partition boundaries in the partition table. If you want to be able to have FreeBSD and DOS coexist, you must partition with and leave the board in the same translation mode. Since you already have DOS installed, I would suggest going back to having Extended translation on. Make sure that the install program sees that you have a 255/63 translation at that time. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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