From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 07:23:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA20911 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 07:23:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.ray.com (gatekeeper.ray.com [138.125.162.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA20903 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 07:23:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (mailer@localhost) by gatekeeper.ray.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23552 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:23:59 -0500 Received: from rnccsun1.eo.ray.com by gatekeeper.ray.com; Tue Feb 4 10:22:55 1997 Received: from rnccsun1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rnccsun1.eo.ray.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA28874; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:23:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32F7544F.41C67EA6@eo.ray.com> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 10:22:55 -0500 From: "William A. Gianopoulos" Organization: Raytheon ITS X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; U; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Floppy won't boot if SIIG EIDE Master ISA+I/O card installed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently picked up a used 486DX/33, and bought a 2.1 Gig hard disk for it. I had also planned to run FreeBSD on it using an old 120MB hard drive I happened to have lying around. This was mostly just to have a second FreeBSD machine, and to be able to use the 120MB drive for something. I booted the 2.1-RELEASE floppy and got it to the point where the installation menu came up, so I thought I was all set with FreeBSD, just put in a CD-ROM drive and it's all set. I then found that my BIOS would not support drives larger than 528MB, so I bought a SIIG EIDE Master ISA+I/O card, which has an on-board enhanced auto-detecting disk BIOS as well as 2 IDE interfaces, for 4 drives, 2 buffered serial ports, an enhanced parellel port and a game port. Kind of everything you need to upgrade all on one board using one slot. This cured all my DOS/Windows 95 problems. The problem is, that after installing this board, the FreeBSD boot floppy no longer boots! It reads something from the floppy then just sits there. I never get the "Boot:" prompt. Any ideas what's going on here? Do you know of a workaround? Is there some program I can run under DOS to do the equivalent of booting from the floppy (I assume its just a matter of reading the right amount of data from the floppy to the right memory location and then jumping there). If you do have a clue as to what's happening, would a boot from a hard drive work? I could just do the install on another machine and then move the drive. Any help would be appreciated. -- William A. Gianopoulos; Raytheon Company gianowa@eo.ray.com -------------------------------------------------------- This is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.