From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jun 28 14:35:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.networkrichmond.com (kronos.networkrichmond.com [64.240.180.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0F337B6E7; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:35:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: Network Richmond, LLC. http://www.networkrichmond.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.networkrichmond.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id RAA87640; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:35:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:35:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.networkrichmond.com To: Jin Guojun Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, cshenton@uucom.com, Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD k7-750 + ASUS K7V In-Reply-To: <200006272119.OAA06507@george.lbl.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Jin Guojun wrote: > > A friend had a similar install: k7-700 k7v. I think he had to disable > > bios virus checking and/or the following hack. Let bios boot without > > the floppy then fail. After it says "insert system disk" or whatever, > > insert the floppy and hit return. One of these or the combo got him running. > > A little summary: > > To disable the BIOS virus protection is the key to make installation working > on AMD-K7 + ASUS K7V for all versions after 3.5 and 4.x. > > But this seems a bug because 2.2.8-RELEASE can install on such new hardware. > When 2.2.x branch was out of archive, the K7 even has not born yet. > So, must be the new installation introducing a bug to cause the problem. > > Here to thank all people has replied for the help, > One quick addendum, I believe that is this fixed in -current. John Baldwin and I tackled this a couple of weeks ago. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message