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Date:      Wed, 09 Sep 1998 07:28:27 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Dell Latitude CPi
Message-ID:  <77187299AFA.AAA680D@smtp01.wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.02.9809081936340.12551-100000@viper.cs.unm.edu>

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At 03:37 09-09-98 , Colin Eric Johnson wrote:
>
>OK folks, I'd like to think that this one is a gimme but I'm a bit
>stumped.
>
>I have a brand new Dell Latitude CPi and I would like to get FreeBSD up
>and running. Unfortunately I can get it booted as far as the kernel
>configuration screen. Once I work through the "conflicts" and then tell it
>to quit and save the whole machine just locks up with the cursor in the
>upper left hand corner of the screen. the floppy drive will spin for a
>moment and then stops cold.
>
>Has anyone seen this behavior?

Aye

>Is there a special boot floppy that I should be using?

No

Just don't disable the syscon driver... That's yer problem...

Lemme know if it helps... =)


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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
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