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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 13:49:17 -0500
From: Peter Pinto <pinto@dss.com>
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Hi,

I tried installing 2.1.7 on a PS/2 Model 65 SX with 6MB on the
motherboard and another 4MB on a MCA expansion card.  The system is also
configured with IBM's MCA SCSI-II card, an IBM 200MB SCSI drive, a 3.5"
floppy and a QIC tape drive on the "B" floppy connector.

When the FreeBSD boot disk tries to boot, the system hangs less than a
second after the drive begins to be read.

I thought it may be the floppy drive itself, since I can't remember the
last time I've used it.  So, I pulled the hard drive and did a full
install working off an ISA type motherboard so that FreeBSD was the only
partition on the drive.

When I installed the hard drive back into the PS/2, it hung while trying
to boot in what appeared to be the same place.

It would seem to be that the boot block (or whatever driver tries to
load immediately afterward) is completely incompatible with PS/2
hardware.

Is this true?  Has this ever been tried?

Thanks for your time.

pinto@dss.com