From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 17:44:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (00-60-67-24-29-83.bconnected.net [209.53.17.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B00C14F8A for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:44:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwalther@debian.org) Received: from jwalther (helo=localhost) by localhost with local-smtp (Exim 2.11 #1 (Debian)) id 10WUky-0000uJ-00; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:39:20 -0700 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:39:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Walther X-Sender: jwalther@localhost To: Greg Lehey Cc: Missouri FreeNet Administration , rick hamell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: k6-2/400 and 2.2x In-Reply-To: <19990412093141.T2142@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG maybe you need Jesus Monroy's "New *BSD floppy driver". Jonathan On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 11 April 1999 at 10:48:34 -0500, Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote: > >>> Is there any known incompatability with this processor and 2.2.5R? I am > >>> having problems on this platform, on more than one machine. > >> > >> Nope... whats your problem? > > > > We just purchased an Asus P5AB motherboard and K6-2/400 for a new FBSD > > server. We can boot and install from the CD, *but*, we are unable to boot > > FBSD from either floppy or hard drive. One read and the machine freezes. > > Why on earth I should be able to read and run from CD nad not from > > magnetic media is beyond me, but... > > It's not that simple. > > > Even thought the problem is the same on both floppies and hard drives, > > I've tried altering the hard drive mode just for the hell of it: no > > effect. LBA/Normal/Large/Auto all give the same response. I've tried > > turning off UDMA, block reads, etc., all to no effect. This machine > > passes all diagnostics, and loads/runs RHL5.2, and Win NT4.0/SP4 without > > any errors or problems of any kind (including the loading of the boot > > sector from floppies). > > What kind of disks and controller are you using? What chipset? Does > it freeze, or does it hang? For example, can you still toggle the > NumLock light on the keyboard? What bus speed are you using? Does it > still occur if you go back to a 66 MHz bus speed? > > I suppose it's possible that there is an incompatibility with 2.2.5R, > just that we haven't seen it, and it's unlikely to be directly related > to the processor. But it would still make sense to install > FreeBSD-3.1, since you're not going to get much help following a real > bug in 2.2.5. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message