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To: "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.mv.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.1 boot.flp 
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:17:31 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>FYI I downloaded the file from ftp.freebsd.org
>and tried to run it on a new NEC Versa 22635CD
>notebook. After disabling most devices, the
>boot started and got as far as displaying
>"apm: disabled, not probed."

Try setting 0x01 to the flag of the `npx' device. This will disable
the Pentium optimized bcopy() which somehow caused similar problems. 
It appears to have difficulties with certain VGA chips, as far as I
understand...

Kazu