From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 15:03:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA00585 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:03:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.eskimo.com (root@mail.eskimo.com [204.122.16.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00574 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from eskimo.com (dpk@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mail.eskimo.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA27047; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:03:15 -0800 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:03:13 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital boot failures In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, David Kirchner wrote: > > My drive is an 850MB EIDE drive by Western Digital and I am using > > the 'other OS compatibility' option. It has two small unused partitions > > around it in the partitioning table editor. > > You imply this is the second disk on the first IDE controller. Is this > true? What is the configuration of your disks? I'm sorry, it is the first and only disk. I used that 'other OS compatibility' option in fdisk because it suggested I did that when I typed 'A' to automatically use the whole disk. I also forgot to mention, I have a Promise EIDE 2300+ controller and I noticed while browsing through the mail archives that this card was mentioned several times, unfortunately, not one message (that I found) ever said what to do to get it to work. One person mentioned disabling the on-board BIOS, but I cannot find how to do that in my manual. Also, if it matters, I'm running an AMD 486DX4-120 (who knows, it might be causing the problems...) with Award BIOS. > > > When I use the booteasy option, I keep hitting F1 over and over, > > nothing ever happens other than repeating the "BSD F?" banner. > > As a note, booteasy will not start FreeBSD off the second disk without > some reprogramming. You can use OS-BS or any other boot manager if you > need to boot off the second disk. (I use OS/2's Boot Manager and it > works great.) I love the name of that, OS-BS, heh, when did Microsoft start making a boot manager? ;) Maybe I'll start using that when I get two drives, I just want this one working. -- David Kirchner -- dpk@eskimo.com -- http://www.eskimo.com/~dpk/ --