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From: Just Baldrick <baldrick@rmsq.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.2.1
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Hello,

> unable to get to the install stage on
>a Pentium laptop (BIT Computers).
>The boot floppy appears to be going through correctly,
>but at the very last stage the screen is corrupted
>and the machine hangs.
>A previous 2.2-SNAP boot floppy worked fine - any ideas?

we just tried the following suggestion from
David Greenman

>setting flags 0x1 for npx0 (via -c at Boot:). There is a problem with
>the optimized bcopy code and some VGA cards.

This worked - I don't know why setting a flag for a math co-processor
fixes some interaction between bcopy code (string manipulation?)
and VGA cards 
but setting the flag to 0x1 via -c in the boot floppy
and subsequently adding to the kernal conf file 
enabled us to put up 2.2.1 on the laptop
thanks





Thanks,
Geoff Martindale