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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:35:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dongil Shin <dshin@ponder.csci.unt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Boot floppy problem with Intel Atlantis motherboard (Mach64)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960424103456.4703B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9604241357.AA18885@ponder>

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On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Dongil Shin wrote:

> 
> 	I am having problem with boot floppy (for installation).
> The booting process goes ok until it uncompresses the kernel. Then,
> suddenly the monitor garbles and goes black. My configuration is
> 
> 1) Intel Atlantis Motherboard with ATI Mach64 chip (2M DRAM)
> 2) AMI BIOS 1.000.05.CL
> 3) CTX 1765 GMe monitor
> 
> 	Anybody had similar booting problem? Any suggestions or
> helps are greatly appreciated.

Use -c and turn off all the sio ports (especially sio3).  

You will want to recompile the kernel and remove the sio3 probe as 
detailed in the FAQ after you get installed.

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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