Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:48:19 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wow... got sound.. but! Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970131124640.18282A-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970130225450.28180l-100000@localhost>
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: > 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? :-/ Yeah, it is not really software-coded, but I heard reports that for some sound cards initializing the card to SB or WSS first may help. I could not try that in this case because fbsdboot.exe will not boot up with wd1. > > 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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