Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:45:20 +0100 From: Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help Message-ID: <200401191345.20560.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> In-Reply-To: <xzpllo7qzt7.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200401161052.32551.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> <200401161733.47751.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <xzpllo7qzt7.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Friday 16 January 2004 23:44, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > On Friday 16 January 2004 05:17 pm, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > > You need to enable packet mode in boot0 for it to work. > > > > > > I think the problem here is that his BIOS doesn't support packet mode. > > > > If his BIOS sees that the disk is larger than 540 mb, it supports > > packet mode. Anything that supports 'LBA' mode supports packet mode > > (that's what it is). Everything post 1994 supports LBA aka packet > > mode. I think a PPro 200 is probably 1995 or later. :) > > OK, I stand corrected. > > Juan, BTW, just a shot in the dark: what kind of motherboard do you > have? Could you check on the net if a BIOS upgrade is available for > your motherboard? I had a similar problem when I first got a 40 GB > disk (my ASUS motherboard only supported 32 GB disks, and hung during > POST if it found a larger disk), but a BIOS upgrade fixed that (though > I didn't know until I contacted ASUS, because it wasn't listed on the > support page for my motherboard) > > DES Hey, thank you very much for your help, I didn't expect all these messages. I'm a bit sad because my question was a bit stupid.....sorry for that... Anyway, I will give you more info: My motherboard is ASUS SP97-V, with integrated graphic chipset SIS-5598 (though now I've got a PCI Nvidia Riva TNT2 card..., which works excellent with FreeBSD (^--^) I copy the output of the ASUSTek PNP BIOS FLASH MEMORY Writer: Current BIOS Revision: #401A0-0108v I think I bought this computer on 1995, Im not sure... I've upgraded my BIOS only once (a couple of years ago)... I wil have to search to see if there is another BIOS upgrade. IF you need more info....just ask me, I will be fond of sending it... You're doing a great job with naive people like me, cheer up !!
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