From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 14:17: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out.vma.verio.net (smtp-out.vma.verio.net [168.143.190.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E261512E for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:16:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@clark.net) Received: from smtp-gw.vma.verio.net ([168.143.0.18]) by smtp-out.vma.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10wBOH-0005cX-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:14:05 -0400 Received: from minotaur (thomas.clark.net [168.143.2.191]) by smtp-gw.vma.verio.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA27154 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:16:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990621171421.0084c3e0@pop3.clark.net> X-Sender: thomas@pop3.clark.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:14:21 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: Install problems - BIOS? In-Reply-To: <376BF776.807EA5FA@3-cities.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990619110430.008b3520@pop3.clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [History below] I now have this system booting, but it still has a problem. I ended up with BIOS translation ON both in the system BIOS and the SCSI BIOS. The drive is set up with a partition rather than dedicated. The boot manager starts, and presents two options: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 0 Default: F1 Hitting F1 appears to try to boot of the floppy drive. Hitting F5 results in display of: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 Followed by a normal boot on either timeout or F1. fdisk reports [abbreviated by hand]: parameters extracted from in-core disk label are: cyl=522 heads=255 sect/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cyl=522 heads=255 sect/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165, (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 8385867 (4094 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 521/sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: The SCSI BIOS shows the only SCSI HD as Drive C: (80H). There are no IDE devices attached to this machine. Plug and Play support is off in the system BIOS. # uname -a FreeBSD thomas@clark.net 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 18 04:05:08 GMT 1999 jkh@cathair:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 Can anyone point me to the cause of the above behavior and a possible solution? Ideally I'd like to default boot to FreeBSD from the HD of course. At 01:03 PM 6/19/99 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: >Mark Thomas wrote: >> >> I'm currently doing an FTP install of a Micron P133 system. I suspect I've got one of the 'bad' BIOS's that won't deal with FreeBSD. Just hoping for some confirmation. >> >> The system: >> >> Micron P133 Millenia MB Phoenix BIOS V4.04 (Flashed to the most recent version) >> Adaptec 2940AU SCSI controller BIOS V1.30 >> Seagate ST15230N HD >> Iomega 1G Jaz >> Iomega 100M Zip >> Plextor CD-ROM 6x >> >> There are no other OS's on this system. I've tried all reasonable combinations of dedicated/partition geometries on the drive. I've tried with DOS/Other > 1 GB drive support in both the system and SCSI BIOS. W95/98 both install fine on this machine, so I don't suspect hardware. > >I have a Micron Millennia and it came with a Phoenix 4.04 BIOS. That >particular BIOS (M54HI on my system) has real problems but I thought >they were only with IDE drives. Revision 11 was supposed to take care of >the Y2K problems. Micro Firmware has an upgrade to Phoenix 4.05 for the >Micron Millennia that gets rid of most of the IDE problems such as IDE >drives larger than 4GB and introduces additional PCI features. It is >item number M5HS10 and costs $79. The have other products for BIOSes >other than the M54HI. > >I have had BIOS'es that won't deal with dangerously dedicated drives but >have no problem with the DOS mbr. They would not boot past the BIOS >drive check at startup, which is perfomed immediately after the memory >check. It seemed to be an interaction with S.M.A.R.T and the HD. Yours >isn't accepting either MBR. That model Hawk 4 has 3992 cylinders, 19 >heads, and 110 sectors and I kind of wonder if you are bumping into the >1023 cylinder problem. The support for > 1GB drives would have to be >turned on otherwise the 1023 cylinder boot rule would limit the first >partition to less than 1094,691,840 bytes. > >Kent > >> >> In all cases the install process works without apparent problems. It looks like all hardware detects correctly. >> >> With any setup that includes a 'dangerously dedicated' drive, the system fails to find the HD on reboot and reports 'Read Error' until a floppy is inserted. >> >> With a config that includes a non dedicated setup, the boot loader starts, with the choices: >> >> F1 FreeBSD >> F5 Drive 0 >> >> Default: F1 >> >> Selecting either results in a keyboard beep. Waiting for a timeout produces nothing. >> >> If anyone has any ideas, can confirm this is a BIOS problem, or sees something I've missed, I'd appreciate a heads up. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >> --- >> thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas >> PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pmpro.com/eldritch >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >Kent Stewart >Richland, WA > >mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com >http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > Mark --- thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pmpro.com/eldritch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message