From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 22:56:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA07064 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:56:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA07041 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:55:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA04304; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:55:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:55:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Howard Lew cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wow... got sound.. but! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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