From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jul 13 10:08:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27256 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from macs.mxim.com (macs.mxim.com [204.17.143.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27251 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaele@mxim.com) Received: from localhost (michaele@localhost) by macs.mxim.com (8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA07721; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:07:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Enkelis X-Sender: michaele@macs To: Mike Smith cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Micronics W6-Li In-Reply-To: <199807121825.LAA21878@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > When I boot up the machine after running the install (which completes > > fine, btw. 3.0-520-SNAP), I get a 'read error' message, and it won't > > boot. If I boot off the install floppy and specify the hard drive, it > > will boot fine. The drive is a 4.3 Gb Seagate Barracuda, narrow. I have > > also tried plugging in my older 4.3 Gb Seagate Hawk, but same message. > > > > I recall someone saying something about these boards having trouble > > recognizing a partition over 1 Gb, but not really sure... I had the same problem with my Micronics P54E and a 4.x Gb Quantium drive. After doing some checking i found a note on the BIOS saying that they had made a mistake and were not saveing enuf bits in CMOS to allow for drives over 1Gb in size. The way i fixed my system was to boot up MS-DOS, and created a small DOS partition, and made it bootable. NOTE1: BIOS still would not boot directly to hard disk yet (READ ERROR)! I then booted to FreeBSD from startup floppy and setup system in the unused disk space KEEPING the MS-DOS partition. When asked for boot loader to be installed i selected the MULTI-OS boot loader, and then proceded with normal FreeBSD install. The Micronics MB now can boot to DOS or FreeBSD, since the OS-LOADER can correctly boot large disk drives. Since my P54 is EISA & PCI bus, i loaded the EISA config utils into the DOS partition to make my system configs easer. I also loaded some of my Adaptec SCSI diag tools into the DOS partition. NOTE2: I am using an Adaptec 2940-UW controller and enableing "large" drive support in the onboard bios was done. I also tried enabling the large drive support in the P54 BIOS (OS type= OTHER) and was still getting the "READ ERROR" up to the time I installed the MULTI-OS LOADER. _ _ _ __ michaele@mxim.com ' ) ) ) / /) / ` / /) Michael Enkelis / / / o _. /_ __. _ // /-- __ /_ _ // o _ (503) 641 - 3737 x2245 / ' (_(_(__/ /_(_(_(<_(/_ (___, /) )_/ <_(<_(/_(_/_)_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message