Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:51:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Missouri FreeNet Administration <measl@mfn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolution: k6-2/400 and 2.2x Message-ID: <19990412135136.N2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37115402.CBA31DC5@3-cities.com>; from Kent Stewart on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 07:01:38PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990411202704.489A-100000@pub2.mfn.org> <37115402.CBA31DC5@3-cities.com>
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On Sunday, 11 April 1999 at 19:01:38 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: >>> Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:31:41 +0930, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >>>> <snip> >>>>> What kind of disks and controller are you using? >>>> Controllers are on the motherboard (Asus P5A-B). >>>> >>>>> What chipset? >>>> ALi AGPset. 100mhz front end bus, Western Digital 1.6gb IDE drive, >>>> Standard 3.5" Mitsumi floppy, 32mb of 100mhz SDRAM, Generic 4 mb PCI video >>>> card, SMC800x Network Card: all known to be good. As I said, this system, >>>> unchanged, boots and runs NT4/SP4, RHL 5.2, etc... >>>> >>>>> Does it freeze, or does it hang? >>>> It hangs. CTL-ALT-DEL still reboots, numlock still functions, etc. It >>>> appears to read the first boot sector before dying. >>>> >>>>> Does it still occur if you go back to a 66 MHz bus speed? >>>> Unknown right now: I will try it later this weekend. >>>> >>>>> I suppose it's possible that there is an incompatibility with 2.2.5R, >>>>> just that we haven't seen it, and it's unlikely to be directly related >>>>> to the processor. But it would still make sense to install >>>>> FreeBSD-3.1, since you're not going to get much help following a real >>>>> bug in 2.2.5. >>>> I wasn't aware that 3.1 was out: last I checked, 3.0 was available, but, >>>> to paraphrase the FBSD warning: "3.0 [was] not ready for prime time" ;-) >>>> >>>> Is there continuing support for 2.2.8R? We are *very* pleased with the >>>> 2.2.x series, and are not exactly thrilled at changing over to the 3.x >>>> line... (Why fix something thats not only not [usually] broken, but >>>> usually picture perfect???) >>> >>> I had problems with WD drives and non-DOS mbr. I found an >>> incompatability between SMART and the bios. You start the power up >>> sequence, it counts through memory, and then it checks the hard drive >>> and hangs. I had to use a startup disk from Win98 to "fdisk /mbr", >>> left that mbr in place and my problems went away. >> >> This was it! Once I disable S.M.A.R.T., the problem disappeared! >> >> THANKS! > > I don't know what it is but the FreeBSD mbr sure trashes some of the > new systems. You were lucky. I couldn't turn off SMART. OK, this looks like the discussion we had about "dangerously dedicated" disks. If your BIOS requires a Microsoft partition table at the beginning of the disk, you're going to have to install a Microsoft partition table at the beginning of the disk. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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