Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
>
>
> There's a second problem with this machine: I can't get it to boot
> from disk.  It booted fine under NT, but it won't boot FreeBSD on its
> own, nor was it willing to boot Mandrake Linux.
>

That is a common problem with SCSI adapters.  To fix it, go into the
SCSI configuration and turn ON 'translation for DOS'  I think it is
called.
I know, it's not particularly intuitive, and the help in the
SCSI bios indicates you turn this off for UNIX.

If you have an onboard SCSI this parameter is probably set in the BIOS
or in EISA-config if you have EISA slots.

Just a FYI the "translation for DOS" setting is used only when the
machine is
booting, it has no effect on the FreeBSD system once it's up and runing.

>
> The only way I can boot right now is from diskette.  I enter the
> loader after waiting 10 minutes for the diskette boot to proceed,
> then I change
> the current device, unload the kernel, and boot again, and the machine
> instantly boots from the hard disk and comes up.  Now if I could just
> get the machine to do that on its own ...

Ted