Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:12:12 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: pitlord@usit.net Subject: Re: booting problems Message-ID: <199701011612.RAA28809@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <32C9EC2F.533A@usit.net> from Troy Settle at "Dec 31, 96 11:46:39 pm"
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As Troy Settle wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD on a pentium for the > first time. [...] > I rebuilt the kernel a few times, and the problem kept > repeating itself. I moved the HD off to another system, > and all my kernels booted just fine. What version of FreeBSD? There were some problems in the bootblocks that have been fixed since. > Also, while I'm posting, does anyone know if there's a way > I can use a generic NE2000 PCI card that insists on sitting > at IRQ 12, 0xFF40 ? FreeBSD <= 2.1.6 can only handle them if you configure it manually at these settings (and of course, next time you change your PCI configuration, you will have to boot -c again). FreeBSD 2.2 (BETA and all the SNAPs later than May 1996) supports it directly as a PCI device. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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