From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 08:03:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1EB16A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:03:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4F543D1F for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:03:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5P83S64042296; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:33:29 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mark Kirkwood Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:33:24 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BCF976.4060902@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <42BCF976.4060902@paradise.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1773043.6ghgElnZ4c"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506251733.24574.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:03:32 -0000 --nextPart1773043.6ghgElnZ4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:58, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In > my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will > work... Hmm strange.. I tried it a few times on an ABit AV8, once on an Epox 8KRDA+ and a few tim= es=20 on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has= =20 never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters) I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because there= is=20 more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1773043.6ghgElnZ4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCvQ/M5ZPcIHs/zowRAlVCAJ9BA+CGHL1asm6pZeEnpoPF29IidgCfY3uC Hfs3CQoTh6o2R0cywtpr3rU= =cG+r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1773043.6ghgElnZ4c--