Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:44:04 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help Message-ID: <xzpllo7qzt7.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200401161733.47751.jhb@FreeBSD.org> (John Baldwin's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:33:47 -0500") References: <200401161052.32551.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> <200401161454.00415.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <xzp1xpzsfmh.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200401161733.47751.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > On Friday 16 January 2004 05:17 pm, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > You need to enable packet mode in boot0 for it to work. > > I think the problem here is that his BIOS doesn't support packet mode. > If his BIOS sees that the disk is larger than 540 mb, it supports > packet mode. Anything that supports 'LBA' mode supports packet mode > (that's what it is). Everything post 1994 supports LBA aka packet > mode. I think a PPro 200 is probably 1995 or later. :) OK, I stand corrected. Juan, BTW, just a shot in the dark: what kind of motherboard do you have? Could you check on the net if a BIOS upgrade is available for your motherboard? I had a similar problem when I first got a 40 GB disk (my ASUS motherboard only supported 32 GB disks, and hung during POST if it found a larger disk), but a BIOS upgrade fixed that (though I didn't know until I contacted ASUS, because it wasn't listed on the support page for my motherboard) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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