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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:15:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDE/eIDE issues
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.951116121342.9991A-100000@terra>
In-Reply-To: <199511161421.PAA22771@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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> I can't the hell get it to boot. After several tries with 
> 'missing operating system' results I finally got it to find
> the boot loader but when the kernel is being loaded
> all I can get is the first | from the twisting |/-\'s then hang.

I had no luck with 2.05R install with ide, similar symptoms. What worked
was to build a 10 meg dos partition and put freebsd on the partition after
that.  Seems silly, but it did the job for us. Your problem may not be 
this problem, however :=(

ron



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