Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:33:47 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help Message-ID: <200401161733.47751.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp1xpzsfmh.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200401161052.32551.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> <200401161454.00415.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <xzp1xpzsfmh.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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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 mo= de. =20 Anything that supports 'LBA' mode supports packet mode (that's what it is).= =20 Everything post 1994 supports LBA aka packet mode. I think a PPro 200 is=20 probably 1995 or later. :) =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =3D http://www.FreeBSD.org
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