Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:55:47 -0700 (MST) From: Just Baldrick <baldrick@rmsq.com> To: baldrick@rmsq.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.2.1 Message-ID: <199704041755.KAA13669@rmsq.com>
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Hello, > unable to get to the install stage on >a Pentium laptop (BIT Computers). >The boot floppy appears to be going through correctly, >but at the very last stage the screen is corrupted >and the machine hangs. >A previous 2.2-SNAP boot floppy worked fine - any ideas? we just tried the following suggestion from David Greenman >setting flags 0x1 for npx0 (via -c at Boot:). There is a problem with >the optimized bcopy code and some VGA cards. This worked - I don't know why setting a flag for a math co-processor fixes some interaction between bcopy code (string manipulation?) and VGA cards but setting the flag to 0x1 via -c in the boot floppy and subsequently adding to the kernal conf file enabled us to put up 2.2.1 on the laptop thanks Thanks, Geoff Martindale
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