From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 11:01:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA22093 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22077 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id SAA26941; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:37:53 +0100 (BST) To: Brian Candler cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 1996 13:52:08 -0000." <199606061303.OAA10474@typhoon.dial.pipex.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 18:37:51 +0100 Message-ID: <26939.834082671@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Candler wrote in message ID <199606061303.OAA10474@typhoon.dial.pipex.net>: > I disabled the on-board BIOS (changed JP3 from 111 to 000) and FreeBSD > booted fine - but then Windows 95 didn't!! Might that be because the W95 > partition is the last 500MB of a 1.2GB disk, and hence W95's boot block is > not in the first 504MB? (The Promise BIOS was able to cope with that, > though) > Is this a mess, or what?! :-{ Don't ask me WHY, but it just happens on the Promise EIDE 2300 card(s). No-one has offered a suitable explanation yet, let alone a reasonable fix (aside from disabling the BIOS). Sorry :( Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info