Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:33:24 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash Message-ID: <200506251733.24574.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <42BCF976.4060902@paradise.net.nz> References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BCF976.4060902@paradise.net.nz>
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--nextPart1773043.6ghgElnZ4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:58, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In > my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will > work... Hmm strange.. I tried it a few times on an ABit AV8, once on an Epox 8KRDA+ and a few tim= es=20 on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has= =20 never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters) I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because there= is=20 more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1773043.6ghgElnZ4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCvQ/M5ZPcIHs/zowRAlVCAJ9BA+CGHL1asm6pZeEnpoPF29IidgCfY3uC Hfs3CQoTh6o2R0cywtpr3rU= =cG+r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1773043.6ghgElnZ4c--
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