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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:00:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        jdiesel@iee.org
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hard Disk, answers ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960325225921.236G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603260034.BAA05555@othello.dataware.de>

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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Jason Diesel wrote:

> I do a rawrite of the boot.flp onto a diskette, and boot the system. 
> My experience tells me what to look for. I find the network card, and 
> the console and standard things, but no serial ports (COM1 and COM2) 
> and no wdc0. I reboot DOS and all are there. I do have an oldish 
> controller card, where the serial, parallel, floppy and HDD 
> controller are all on one card, and I have lost the instructions to 
> the card so I don't know exactly what jumpers should go where, but it 
> all works under DOS.

Did you boot -c and make sure those items are enabled and 
configured properly?

Type -c at the Boot: prompt on startup, then type 'visual' and make sure 
those are not in the disabled area.

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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