From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 18:27:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA15289 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost1.primenet.com (mailhost1.primenet.com [206.165.5.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA15250 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from primenet.com (bkogawa@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.5.104]) by mailhost1.primenet.com (8.7.6/8.7.1) with ESMTP id SAA12286 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:26:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (bkogawa@localhost) by primenet.com (8.7.6/8.7.6) with SMTP id SAA00716 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:26:55 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:26:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Ogawa To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booteasy cannot boot from wd0 (first IDE disk) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a machine which has a new IDE drive (1.6Gig Seagate). I installed 2.1.5 on it, and have encountered the following problem: Booteasy can find the drive, but it cannot reach the boot prompt. I get a booteasy prompt which looks like this: F1 ... BSD F5 ... Disk 2 (Disk 2 is a SCSI disk connected with a VLB Adaptec 2480 -- it works fine, and I can even boot off of it). If I press F1, it just pops back to the Booteasy prompt. If I press F5, it boots Disk 2 (which is FreeBSD, and will let me boot wd(0,a)/kernel to get to the FreeBSD on wd0). Has anyone seen this problem before? Could it have to do with cylinders > 1024 ? bryan k. ogawa