Hi, I've got a problem with my machine at home which is slightly BSD related (cause ONLY BSD could handle the problem:))). So: At this moment, I've got a 2.2.7-FreeBSD and an NT installed on my PC. There are two hard drives in the PC, the primary master IDE drive is a 2.5 Quantum drive, it is set to LBA in the BIOS. The second one is secondary slave, an old 405M Quantum drive. The (AWARD) BIOS can't recognize right geometry of the latter one via 'IDE HD autodetection'. The first HD has got the NT and BSD installed and a 'booteasy' in the root sector installed from the FreeBSD distribution. Although booteasy can recognize the type of the partitions on the first HD, it cannot boot them. The only way to boot up my PC is to insert the BSD install CD in the CD drive and when the BSD boot prompt appears, type: 1:wd(0,a)kernel.
After that, the BSD already installed on the hard drive would start up, recognizes is all the parts of the PC and everything would run fine as they should. This situation happened tho weeks ago. Before, my PC work quite well, w/o problems. I would like to know, where does BSD know from the geometry of the disks when BIOS can't get them. Thanks in advance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sebestyén Zoltán <sz...@netvisor.hu> I'm believing that the Holy Spirit is gonna allow the hand, and the foot, and MAKE INSTALL NOT WAR the mouth, just to begin to speak, and to minister, and to heal coordinated by the head. I use UNIX because reboots are for hardware upgrades. Kick me! Whip me!! Make me develop on AIX!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message