Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:25:10 -0700 From: Mike Schwartz <mykes@sportsextra.com> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: about that strange isntallation problem Message-ID: <01BCAA37.0FA18CA0.mykes@sportsextra.com>
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Yesterday I wrote this list about a problem I was having installing FreeBSD on two different machines (P2 and P150). Well, turns out I found the problem and resolved it. I e-mail this list in case someone else runs into the problem and can use the help. Turns out both machines had identical monochrome cards that needed to be jumpered differently for FreeBSD to work. These cards cost about $15 each and were made in Taiwan (you get the picture :-) They have a feature that I've never seen before called "color emulation" which was enabled. Also, I disabled the parallel port on the card. I'm not sure which of the two jumper changes I made fixed the problem - I was just happy to see the systems running FreeBSD :-) Also a note... I originally had Diamond SCSI cards in the machines, but FreeBSD only recognized them with the 3.0-SNAP version of the boot disk. The diamond cards have the symbios (NCR) chipset. I replaced the diamond cards with more generic symbios cards that looked almost identical from a brief visual inspection, and those work. This is a small error in the data sheet for supported hardware for FreeBSD 2.2.2 and under... To those who wrote to help me out, thanks! Best wishes, --- Mike Schwartz, Founder Best Internet Communications CEO & Chairman Internet Extra Corporation FREE sports WWW site, contests, cash prizes: http://www.sportsextra.com
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