Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 16:39:03 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dpk@eskimo.com (David Kirchner) Cc: terry@lambert.org, howard@genome.stanford.edu, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital boot failures Message-ID: <199512101639.QAA15152@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951209013129.10746A-100000@eskimo.com> from "David Kirchner" at Dec 9, 95 01:34:31 am
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David Kirchner stands accused of saying: > Ok, well I'm not running OnTrack.. Smart move! > I tried disabling the on-board BIOS on my Promise card, but that ARGH! Promise IDE controllers are _infamous_ for being weird and generally unpredictable. > didn't solve anything. Something that is totally baffeling(sp?) me is > that whenever I set the main partition to be active and then I reboot, it > is no longer active. Does your BIOS have "anti-virus" features? These can do funny stuff like that. > I did try booting off boot.flp with the -rwd0 someone mentioned > worked for them in the email archives, yet it doesn't do anything > different, and even if it does, I can't tell because it still boots > sysinstall instead of /sbin/init. Any flags to change that? That's not the right thing to boot with : at the boot: prompt on the floppy type "wd(0,a)/kernel" (no quotes, obviously) - this should boot from the first IDE disk. If this works, it means your geometry is right. > -- David Kirchner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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