From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 28 22:14:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16C537BB1E; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:13:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00828; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA04737; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006290514.WAA04737@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Kelly Yancey Subject: Re: AMD k7-750 + ASUS K7V Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us, cshenton@uucom.com, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, Jin Guojun Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28-Jun-00 Kelly Yancey wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Jin Guojun wrote: > >> > A friend had a similar install: k7-700 k7v. I think he had to disable >> > bios virus checking and/or the following hack. Let bios boot without >> > the floppy then fail. After it says "insert system disk" or whatever, >> > insert the floppy and hit return. One of these or the combo got him running. >> >> A little summary: >> >> To disable the BIOS virus protection is the key to make installation working >> on AMD-K7 + ASUS K7V for all versions after 3.5 and 4.x. >> >> But this seems a bug because 2.2.8-RELEASE can install on such new hardware. >> When 2.2.x branch was out of archive, the K7 even has not born yet. >> So, must be the new installation introducing a bug to cause the problem. >> >> Here to thank all people has replied for the help, >> > > One quick addendum, I believe that is this fixed in -current. John > Baldwin and I tackled this a couple of weeks ago. Except that I b0rked it in that the jne after the failing cmp to test for instructions with the 0x0f prefix jumped to the wrong target. Rev 1.19 that I committed today should actually work. :P > Kelly -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message