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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:41:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Not booting after install. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701124016.13236A-100000@vnode>
In-Reply-To: <199807010652.XAA00749@antipodes.cdrom.com>

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> > > This means that BIOS disk 0x80 is not sd0, ie. your BIOS probes your 
> > > SCSI controllers in a different order to FreeBSD.  This is because 
> > > someone thought it would be better to do their own PCI enumeration 
> > > rather than use the BIOS.  8(
> > > 
> > Any way of fixing this?
> 
> The "best" way is to disable BIOS support on all the cards except for 
> the one that's providing your boot device, and making sure that this is 
> the controller probed first by FreeBSD.

Wonderful, this fixed everything.  I had two controllers in there trying
to install boot bios.  I enabled only the first one that FreeBSD probed
and re-installed.  Worked wonderful.

Thanks.

> 
> -- 
> \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
> \\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> 
> 
> 


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