From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:53:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01103 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06827 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:32:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA22578; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:18:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:18:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: PYatMtVw cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel DK440LX m/b In-Reply-To: <1e8c3aec.34b68b98@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, PYatMtVw wrote: > Have you done any compatibility test with the new Intel DK440LX motherboard > with Dual Pentium 2 processor? > > This motherboard also has an onboard SCSI from Adaptec AIC 7895P, have you > written any drivers for it yet? > > Since we didn't have any drivers for the Adaptec AIC 7895P chip, we added an > AHA-2940UW SCSI card to our Seagate 4.3GB drive and installed FreeBSD. It > installed ok, it found the drive and the installation was successful. > However, the first time you boot FreeBSD you get a Read Error. Could this be > because the DK440LX uses a Phoenix Bios and not an AMI Bios. No, I seriously doubt it's a BIOS issue or I would have heard about it more. My guess is there's some problem with the BIOS finding the proper partition to boot from. Apparently the Phoenix BIOS complains one way and the rest of the world complains another. Can you boot the FreeBSD partition okay if you use a boot disk and sd(0,a)/kernel at the boot: prompt? (or whatever's appropriate for your setup) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major