Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:49:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Varsator@aol.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD on CompaQ Prolinea 5100, Adaptec 2940 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728174815.381J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <960716102219_238806866@emout14.mail.aol.com>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996 Varsator@aol.com wrote: > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.1 from a CD-ROM distribution to a Compaq > Prolinea 5100, with an Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI adapter. > > The boot floppy diskette for installing FreeBSD loads the Kernel, but it does > not scan > the PCI bus for devices, and therefore it does not find any of the PCI cards, > i.e. > the SCSI adapter, and the video card. > > The PCI Bus Master is enabled - in the Compaq CMOS/BIOS configuration. You probably have one of the broken Compaq PCI busses. :( I don't know how to fix this, sorry. Hopefully someone else can jump in. I think we had this fixed as a patch to the system sources, but you need a fixed boot floppy. 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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