Tech Help?

From: OZ (oz16oz2_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/15/03

  • Next message: Johnson David: "Re: Tech Help?" 
    Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:47:34 -0700 (PDT)
To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Hi,

    I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, and am trying to set it up to
    dual boot from a Primary Slave hard drive on an HP
    Pavilion 716n. Having nothing but troubles.

    I've done the Google searches, and I've spent as much
    time as I can afford scouring the help sites, but
    can't find any answers. If this is not the right
    forum for this question, please let me know where I
    can find some help.

    My Primary Master is Windows XP (on a Seagate, 80GB),
    I'm trying to set up the Primary Slave as FreeBSD 4.7
    Release (on a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8, 30GB).

    When I go through the boot sequence for FreeBSD, it
    gets stuck at:

     ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
     ad0: resetting devices ..

    Just hangs there indefinitely.

    I found one solution through a Google search that
    suggested disabling the DMA in the BIOS. However, on
    the HP Pavilion, I can't do that -- it won't allow me
    to disable the DMA in the BIOS.

    What can I do? This is a fairly urgent issue, and I'm
    out of ideas. Please help. Thanks in advance!

    OZ

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