Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 01/16/04

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    To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:44:04 +0100

    John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
    > On Friday 16 January 2004 05:17 pm, Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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