From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 04:51:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC42416A4CE; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 04:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.uc3m.es (smtp02.uc3m.es [163.117.136.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C5F43D39; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 04:50:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es) Received: from smtp02.uc3m.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.uc3m.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778862407; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:50:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from 10.0.0.2 (unknown [163.117.252.29]) by smtp02.uc3m.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1212B1785; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:50:44 +0100 (CET) From: Juan Rodriguez Hervella Organization: UC3M To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=), John Baldwin Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:45:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401161052.32551.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> <200401161733.47751.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401191345.20560.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:51:01 -0000 On Friday 16 January 2004 23:44, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > John Baldwin writes: > > On Friday 16 January 2004 05:17 pm, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > John Baldwin 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 !!