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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:55:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wow... got sound.. but!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970130225450.28180l-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970130165552.12548D-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU>

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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Howard Lew wrote:

> Hmmm... is there a way to boot up FreeBSD from drive D in dos after
> initializing the sound card.  If I reboot by the 3 finger salute or the
> system reset button, the sound card gets reset.  This is sort of an old
> question because I have seen it float by the mailing list. 
> 
> I tried use fbsdboot.exe and a kernel in DOS, but that only boots up
> FreeBSD up to the part before mounting the hard drives.  At that point
> the OS panics because it can not mount the drive (which is on D).  I
> don't believe fbsdboot.exe would have that problem if the boot drive was
> C. 

In that case, I don't think so.  

Geez I hate software-coded sound cards :(  It's like the USR Winmodem:
What drug were these people *on* when they designed these things?  :-/

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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