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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Support for fixed-scan monitors
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>However, what if the screen used by BIOS is on a monitor which doesn't accept the 
>default scan rates (my situation) ? During boot, we would not see :
>a) the BIOS messages
>b) the '>> FreeBSD....Boot:' prompt
>In this case, there is little we can do about a) (except perhaps hack the BIOS :(.
>But we *can* do something about b) by hacking the bootblocks (which is what I did:).

How do you stop the BIOS from blowing up the monitor that doesn't accept
normal scan rates? :-).

I deleted your mail with the bootblock changes.  How does it set to mono
mode?  Does it just set mode 7?  I'm surprised that you can't set the
value in the CMOS.

Bruce