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Date:      Sat, 04 Oct 1997 14:52:16 -0400
From:      The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fbsdboot.exe
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19971004145216.00967820@cybercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <199710041752.KAA01607@shasta.wstein.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.971003172534.24216C-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>

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At 10:52 AM 10/4/97 -0700, Joseph Stein wrote:
>Is using fbsdboot "the same as" a warm reset into freebsd?
>
>(I have a PNP card that requires an DOS program _each_ time the 
>system is power-cycled; therefore I have a DOS disk with the autoexec
>batch file set to run that utility, but then I have to be around to
>warm boot the machine.)

I've used this technique succesfully with a SoundBlaster 32PnP and a
MediaMagic SoundBlaster-compatible card.  Both required initializing with
their DOS drivers and the use of FBSDBOOT.EXE before they would work in
FreeBSD/Linux.  A kludge, but it worked...

K.S.



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