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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:25:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Erik Johannessen <erik@docunetworks.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems Booting FreeBSD 2.1.5
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920002511.1049H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.960916120610.24977A-100000@docunet.docunetworks.com>

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On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Erik Johannessen wrote:

> I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 on a Micron Millena P133, with a 3com595
> ethernet card, a buslogic MulitMaster PCI SCSI adapter. 
> 
> The problem I am having is trying to boot the boot floppy, it finds the
> ethernet card ok, and then it finds the buslogic, but it doesn't seem to
> get the right revision number of it, displaying some wierd 8bit
> characters, it then times out on the SCSI bus, and panics, crashing the
> whole boot, I tried the newest snap aswell, with same result. Any idea of
> why this could be happening, or how to solve it?

Hm.  Either a device conflict or the MultiMaster isn't supported.

Boot with the -c option and disable everything but the bare necessities.

> The machine runs Win95 and Linux just fine...

Doesn't everything?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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