Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:00:35 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: cofer@www.cas.unt.edu (Christopher D. Cofer) Cc: tom@sdf.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing Stable on 386/33 No Boot Prompt. Message-ID: <199607031130.VAA09481@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960702081105.24581A-100000@www.cas.unt.edu> from "Christopher D. Cofer" at Jul 2, 96 08:13:08 am
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Christopher D. Cofer stands accused of saying: > > > I found the problem. I removed the SIIG controller and replaced it with > a simple IDE controller. It worked fine. Is the on board BIOS on > controllers not supported under FBSD? It's not a question of FreeBSD not "supporting" these controllers; the problem is that the onboard BIOSses don't behave properly, and thus the FreeBSD bootloader fails. Because very few people have the time or inclination to patch perfectly correct and functional software to work with inferior, broken hardware, these sort of things don't get "fixed". > * Christopher Don Cofer College of Arts * -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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