Re: Compaq Evo boot problem

[Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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