Subject: Re: SOLVED- 4.5GB SCSI Disk/geometry woes on 1.4.2
To: Steve Paul <stevep@mccue.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/09/2000 10:26:55
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 03:37:52PM -0700, Steve Paul wrote:
> The solution- the 2940UW BIOS revision.  2940UW's
> that have the 2.20 revision BIOS will not work.  This revision 
> works fine for everything- NT, Windows, DOS.. You can FDISK
> and FORMAT and boot fine- but upon running NetBSD
> the machine will hang on boot. My other two working NetBSD
> boxes had pre 2.00 BIOS's.  I'd still be pulling my hair out
> if I didn't notice the BIOS numbers for that 3-4 seconds 
> during the Adaptec <CTRL-A> screen.

At what point during the boot did it hang? There was a problem with
the bootloader that was recently fixed. Also, did you have an option
called "BIOS int13 extensions" or "support for > 8G drives" enabled?

- Frank