From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 18:10:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA26085 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.78]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA26015 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00247; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:09:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Guido van Rooij cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 install failure: booting from fd0, not sd0 In-Reply-To: <199608280939.LAA15305@gvr.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > How _strange_. Sounds like your BIOS is very odd. What kind of BIOS do > > you have? > > Itr's a Phoenix. I am thinking it is very broken..It is now giving > very strange results on floppy drive recognition. Hm. If it was an AMI I'd look at....oh, what's it called? Device relocation or something like that. It has options like BIOS Stack and RAM or something like that...if that isn't set to RAM then strange things happen. Have you checked device conflicts between the disk controllers and other system devices? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major