Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:18:59 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Peter Pinto <pinto@dss.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS/2 Model 65 SX Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970304141843.6806A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <331C6EAD.62A0@dss.com>
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FreeBSD doesn't support MCA, I'm afraid. On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Peter Pinto wrote: > 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 > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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