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From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: wow... got sound.. but!
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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
>