Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:08:08 +0100 From: Richard Brooksby <Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com> To: Sean Harding <sharding@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Cc: Sean Harding <sharding@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD under Virtual PC Message-ID: <l03130308b203057e8176@[193.112.142.7]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.00.9807241129540.17610-100000@gutenberg.uoregon.edu> References: <l03130303b1de3d7e8a29@[208.208.142.213]>
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At 1998-07-24 11:32 -0700, Sean Harding wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Richard Brooksby wrote: > > > I suspect that Virtual PC doesn't emulate the devices exactly enough. They > > probably only got them working well enough for the Windows drivers to work > > correctly. I guess I could get into driver debugging but I don't have the > > Well, it works ok with OPENSTEP and Intel Rhapsody...And I've heard of > Linux working. I haven't been able to get Red Hat Linux 5.1 to work. It appears to install correctly but falls over in a big heap at boot time, with all sorts of weird and wonderful errors from the startup scripts and from init. Eventually it just sits there and won't respond. Very odd. > > What's your source for this information? Are there people at Connectix who > > are willing to discuss this kind of thing? > > To be honest, I don't remember. I think I heard about third-hand that > someone had complained to FreeBSD people, who in-turn complained to > Connectix, who did a 1.x release claiming to have the fix for that as one > of the changes. Now I have 2.0 and it still doesn't work. Generally from > what I hear, Connectix is pretty interested in making sure that VPC is a > quality PC hardware emulator which will run pretty much anything. So, I > think they like to try to fix things like this. It's just that I have > LinuxPPC on my desktop machine, FreeBSD on a PC and my laptop would be too > slow for it to be fun anyway. So, I haven't pursued it much. Just to let you know that FreeBSD 2.2.7 (which I received this morning) also panics with a "bad dir" error during installation of the "bin" distribution. Shame. Does anyone know the nature of the problem? It seems to be with the "wd" disk driver. For a start, unless the CD-ROM is in "alternate" configuration the kernel just doesn't find it at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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