From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 01:26:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA13300 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:26:50 -0800 Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA13247 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:26:00 -0800 Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA07167; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:20:01 +0100 From: Thomas Gellekum Message-Id: <199512040920.KAA07167@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Anyone having 2.1 install trouble with funky IDE hardware? To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:20:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512031804.TAA03130@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 3, 95 07:04:44 pm Organization: Institut f. Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 632 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Have any folks out there > > installed 2.1 on old-n-mouldy 386 equipment without incident? > > My test box is an ancient 386sx/16 w/ 6 MB RAM, a Seacrate ST1144A IDE > disk, and a (flakey) Maxtor SCSI hanging off an AHA-1540*A* control- > ler, plus a Herculess card & monitor. Everything went flawlessly for > all of my 2.1 pre-releases. 386sx/16/6MB, Fujitsu T2613M. As I already wrote to bugs, sysinstall hangs after trying to find the disk. The disk is probed correctly. I have no idea what's going on here; I wanted to try the latest snaps when I have time. tg