freebsd has problems with bios

[Andrew P.]

On 10/13/05, Kamal R. Prasad <kamalp at acm.org> wrote:
> I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may
> be unstable.
> I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve
> the problem.
> Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with freebsd.
>
> regards
> -kamal
>


In fact FreeBSD bypasses BIOS and interacts directly
with a disk controller. Could you tell us the exact vendor
and make of your motherboard. It's an interesting case.


Thanks,
Andrew P.