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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 07:12:13 -0800
From:      eculp@encontacto.net
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        scsi@Freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot get a SYM53C896 SCSI controller to boot with stable or Current
Message-ID:  <1016291533.3c9360cdc166f@Mail.EnContacto.Net>
In-Reply-To: <20020316110347.GA5302@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <1016242020.3c929f6411614@Mail.EnContacto.Net> <20020316110347.GA5302@walton.maths.tcd.ie>

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Quoting David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>:

> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:27:00PM -0800, Edwin Culp wrote:
> > Is this a known problem?  I searched the lists and found nothing.  Does
> > anyone have any idea where to start to find a solution?
> 
> Things like this can happen if the BIOS and the FreeBSD installer
> have different ideas about the disk's geometry. I'd start there.
> 
> 	David.

David,

Thanks, I'll sure take a look a closer look at the controller bios configuration.
This machine really caught me off guard because I installed over a working
red hat installation so I really didn't expect problems.

It was also suggested that I do a dos fdisk /mbr which certainly can't hurt.

Thanks again,

ed

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