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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:49:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Varsator@aol.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing FreeBSD on CompaQ Prolinea 5100, Adaptec 2940
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728174815.381J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <960716102219_238806866@emout14.mail.aol.com>

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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996 Varsator@aol.com wrote:

> I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.1 from a CD-ROM distribution to a Compaq
> Prolinea 5100, with an Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI  adapter. 
> 
> The boot floppy diskette for installing FreeBSD loads the Kernel, but it does
> not scan
> the PCI bus for devices, and therefore it does not find any of the PCI cards,
> i.e.
> the SCSI adapter, and the video card.
> 
> The PCI Bus Master is enabled - in the Compaq CMOS/BIOS configuration.

You probably have one of the broken Compaq PCI busses.  :(  I don't know
how to fix this, sorry.  Hopefully someone else can jump in.   I think we
had this fixed as a patch to the system sources, but you need a fixed boot
floppy. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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