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Date:      Sat, 28 Oct 95 23:12:36 PDT
From:      richterb@ccnet.com
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FW: Problem on FreeBSD CD installation 
Message-ID:  <Chameleon.951028231736.wlr@>

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Ah, Unixware had no trouble so I 
assumed life was good.

My VLbus controller has Normal, Fast 
and Turbo mode, obviously, Turbo gives 
the best performance.

Works fine for loading Unixware, 
FreeBSD, NOT.

The difference, Turbo and Fast us 
32-bit VL-bus IO and new readmultiple 
and write multiple commands supported 
by certain new IDE drives.  Yeah, 
which drives?

Anyhow when running FreeBSD I boot 
Normal mode and away it goes.


On Sat, 28 Oct 95 21:28:26 PDT  
richterb@ccnet.com wrote:
>Like many others I have a boot 
>problem.
>
>System has a VLbus IDE controller, 2 
>drives.  Primary is 540M and 
secondary 
>380M.  486DX 20M memory.
>
>FDISK says slice is C356 - C1023, 
>which puts it under the limit.  Setup 

>is 697 cylinders of 1053.
>
>Boot message displays then |.
>
>Tried loading to second hard drive 
and 
>using hd1,a with same results.
>
>This system was running UNIXware 
1.1.4
>with both drives.  Deleted NON DOS 
>partition and loaded 2.0.
>
>Floppy runs fine, no other errors.
>
>No diagnostics why it can't boot, 
>after all it starts the fails.  No
>bootmanager in use.  Tried 
bootmanager
>and results were the same
>
>Tips?  Pointer to FAQ?  None seem to 
>apply to the problems currently 
>occurring.
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>E-mail: richterb@ccnet.com
>Date: 10/28/95
>Time: 21:28:26
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