From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 06:27:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA18693 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 06:27:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neutral-zone.datadesign.com (datadesign.com [198.231.73.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA18688 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 06:27:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.datadesign.com (k7.datadesign.com [172.23.10.60]) by neutral-zone with ESMTP (DuhMail/2.0) id JAA23083; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:15:46 -0400 Received: (from wongk@localhost) by k7.datadesign.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA20739; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:16:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:16:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Wong To: Branson Matheson cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, Joshua Shriver Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199607231135.HAA17793@garion.hq.ferg.com> 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 Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Branson Matheson wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:35:00 -0400 > From: Branson Matheson > To: questions@FreeBSD.org > Cc: Joshua Shriver > Subject: Re: your mail > > -------- > > >On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Joshua Shriver wrote: > > > > I believe I have correctly installed FreeBSD 2.1 Ja n 1996. But > > when I reboot and get the F? prompt it hangs wh en I select BSD. > > Can you give me any advice? > > I have seen this with newer motherboards. There is a bios setting > that lets the bios see the drive as "normal", "lba", and "extended" > .. and you probably have the bios in normal. Make sure that it is in > LBA mode. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ "normal" mode works fine for me. I have 1G HD on EIDE controller > > -branson > > > ============================================================================= > Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were > System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete > Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left? >