Compaq Evo boot problem
Francois Tigeot
ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Sun Jul 30 12:03:00 PDT 2006
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:24:17AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :FWIW, FreeBSD 6.0 has no trouble booting from the machine I had this
> :problem on.
>
> With the disks set to 'Auto' mode instead of 'Large' mode?
Yes.
> There's no real difference between FreeBSD's slice table and ours. There
> might be a difference with regards to the boot code using packet mode
> or not (configurable with boot0cfg), but generally speaking we want to
> use packet mode for the greatest compatibility with BIOSes.
I also used different disks for both OSes; this may have had an effect.
FreeBSD: 120 GB PATA
Dragonfly: 74 GB SATA
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Francois Tigeot
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