I just got in an ATA133 30GB drive that I am going to dedicat to FreeBSD on my main system (an Asus A7V133). I took off the existing 20GB (Win2000), put the 30GB in its place (primary master). I boot from a 4.7-REL CD I made, install goes fine... it detects the controllers, drive, I partition the whole thing for FreeBSD, setting the auto defaults, etc etc. Everything goes swell. Then I'm done, I reboot, take out the CD... and it just sits there when it should be booting from the drive.
The A7V133 has two integraded IDE controllers. One is a Promise ATA100 one. I've tried both the integrated Promise controller, and the non-promise one (doing a full, clean install on each). So it's not specific to the Promise controller. I have BIOS 1009 for this (the latest). Have it set to non-PnP OS (it detects my PCI NIC just fine), have played around with boot orders, even taken the CD-ROM drive off. Kind of bumming, as this was going to be my big exciting install (after playing around with installs on 3 other systems to polish my skills). Anyone up tonight who can offer some suggestions? ===== Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/mozilla/ "Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
