Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:02:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Deng XueFeng <dsnofe@yahoo.com.cn> Subject: Re: CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp breaks loader (was Re: instant reboot when trying to load recent RELENG_5 kernel) Message-ID: <20041101190046.J56441@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <200411011752.34180.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20041031194121.FE2D.DSNOFE@yahoo.com.cn> <20041031222154.50A5.DSNOFE@yahoo.com.cn> <200411011752.34180.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, John Baldwin wrote: > Your BIOS writer needs to be beaten with a blunt instrument. They are trying > to enter protected mode themselves and not handling the fact that they can be > called from vm86 mode. There's not much FreeBSD can do about narrow-minded, > kludgey BIOS code. ISTR that some BIOSen try to play this game because they are trying to see if UDMA works. Try demoting the disk to PIO in the BIOS; FreBSD ignores this setting when configuring disks, so its safe to leave that way. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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