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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:27:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@anasazi.com>
Cc:        support@freebsd.org, Barry Lyon <blyon@ds9.anasazi.com>
Subject:   Re: Boot Floppies
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961017112613.4922A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9610142210.AA03733@chad.anasazi.com>

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On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Chad R. Larson wrote:

> We're using the 2.1.0 release, and we want to get it up on a Compac
> Prosignia 300 which has a NCR 810 PCI SCSI card.  The kernel that is on
> the boot floppy doesn't know about such a thing, but the sources look
> like we could build a kernel that does.  Then we need to create a boot
> floppy with our kernel.

Some Compaq's have a broken PCI bus and won't allow them to detect the
card correctly.  The default boot.flp has NCR support on it, so if it's
not found then there's another problem.

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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