Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 13:49:17 -0500 From: Peter Pinto <pinto@dss.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PS/2 Model 65 SX Message-ID: <331C6EAD.62A0@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
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