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From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu>
To: Martin Randall <marrandy@chaossolutions.org>,
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Subject: Re: Problem with asus P5A-B and FreeBSD's v4.0, 4.1 and 4.2
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I can't specifically say there is an issue with the P5A-B and FreeBSD 
4.x because I've been running it on a P5A-B with various speed Pentium 
I's (no AMD's yet) and a Mitsumi 40X IDE as the secondary master and 
have never had a problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Randall <marrandy@chaossolutions.org>
Date: Thursday, January 4, 2001 6:50 pm
Subject: Re: Problem with asus P5A-B and FreeBSD's v4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 
from CD's

> Hello Martin   (hey, that's me !!!)
> 
> On 04-Jan-01, you wrote:
> <SNIP>
> 
> > 
> > Decided this was stupid and tried OpenBSD CD, RedHat CD and Suse 
> CD - They
> > all did a full install and I also repeated it with the other two 
> CDROM> drives to see if there was something   'flaky' going on. 
> > I had succesfull installs with the other OS's using all three 
> CDROM drives
> > 
> > Has anyone else had a FreeBSD cdrom boot/install problem with 
> the Asus
> > P5A-B motherboard.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards...Martin
> 
> I forgot to add. Tried a second Asus P5A-B. The only hardware 
> difference was
> a AMD 500MHz as opposed to the AMD 300MHz in the first machine. 
> All the
> rest was identical.
> 
> It failed at the same point.
> 
> Just did openBSD and RedHat CD install and they both installed fine.
> 
> So what is the problem with the Asus P5A-B and FreeBSD ???
> 
> Regards...Martin
> -- 
> 
> ---------------
> 
> A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, 
> but to
> deposit the money in his checking account.
> -- Bill Bryson
> 
> 
> 
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