From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 17:49:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA21174 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.97]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA21169 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00445; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:49:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Varsator@aol.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD on CompaQ Prolinea 5100, Adaptec 2940 In-Reply-To: <960716102219_238806866@emout14.mail.aol.com> 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 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