From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 22:59:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA16008 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.85]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA16002 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:59:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00323; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:00:30 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:00:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: jdiesel@iee.org cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk, answers ... In-Reply-To: <199603260034.BAA05555@othello.dataware.de> 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, 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