From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 20 17: 4:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EB615873 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:04:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-16.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.16]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA09651; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:04:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA34284; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:43:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199911210043.SAA34284@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "John Boteler" Cc: "Larry Baird" , "Thomas David Rivers" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-S and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE In-reply-to: Message from "John Boteler" of "Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:29:59 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:43:02 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John Boteler" writes: > It's a good idea on new systems, or on systems upgraded > or changed in a significant way, to select the > system BIOS' option to "Load optimum settings" or > equivalent. In some cases, one or more registers in > the CMOS memory might have gotten junk values inserted > by a previous operator or by a power glitch. > > This can give you the assurance that settings known > to the manufacturer to operate successfully will > be loaded and used. Ditto. My PPro gave me fits with the floppy drive. Seemingly worked OK from DOS 5.0 but not under FreeBSD. Then finally in a fit of desparation I selected "restore defaults", manually made my mandatory changes, and everything started working perfectly. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message