Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 22:03:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Alan B. Evans" <aevans@kaiwan.com> To: alien@PrimeNet.Com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my screwey setup Message-ID: <199507150503.WAA07375@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> In-Reply-To: <199507142030.NAA28667@mailhost.primenet.com> from "Allen Williams" at Jul 14, 95 01:24:35 pm
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> > Hi! I have a question. I think this IS covered in a faq somewhere, > but for the life of me I can't find it. > > I have a very simple system I want to run freebsd on to play with, > but its not cooperating. :( it's a 386-20 with 1mb of ram above the > base 640k, cga, a standard mfm controller that runs two drives (one > 80mb and one 40mb), and a 1.44 floppy. > > when i tired to run 1.1, it basically worked except that it saw my > drive as having 1 cyl 1 head 17 sectors and never asked me anything > about the geometry or the disklabel. I couldn't find anything > anywhere that covered THAT problem, so I decided to try a 2.0.5 > snapshot. on this one, it starts booting and sez TEXT=0x100000 (im > not sue thats the address) and then does its | / - \ | i'm-busy > thing. :) after it does that, it drops about a line and a half more > text onto the screen. I dont know what it says, because it > immediately reboots at that point. > > any information you can give me would be appreciated. I saw lots of > stuff in the docs about systems with cool, wierd stuff that makes it > hard to setup and run bsd.. but this is the least imaginative system > i can think of. i couldnt find much help in the docs about systems > that suck so bad it makes it hard to setup! :) > > thanks in advance.. > -allen > I can't remember where I saw it, but as far as I understand, the 2.0.5 kernel tries to load up at the 3MB address (somebody please correct me if I am wrong). Seeing that you have < 3MB of memory, this will cause a bit of a problem if you have < 4MB of memory. --alan
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