On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:

> This is a long story, sorry about that. The NetBSD version in question
> is 1.3 release.
> 
> I had a spare Pentium 75 CPU lying around so I thought I'd upgrade my
> 486 NetBSD system at home. I went and bought an AOpen AP58 motherboard
> and a single 16 MB EDO RAM SIMM (I already had one). I also bought a
> Seagate ST32122A (2.1GB) IDE disk (in addition to the "old" ST31276A
> (1.2GB) I already had NetBSD on).
> 
> After installing the motherboard the system wouldn't boot. It passed the
> memory test and the disk probe, and then it just hung (no setup summary
> screen).
> 
> After much fiddling around I discovered that disconnecting the IDE
> cables would make the machine boot from floppy (NetBSD or DOS).
> [snip]



I installed a new bios from Asus, works fine now.
No need to install a "real" partition table on the disk.

Must be a bug in the Award bios.


Tom

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