From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 14:19:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19836 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:19:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19828 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:19:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA06984; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:18:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:18:59 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Peter Pinto cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS/2 Model 65 SX In-Reply-To: <331C6EAD.62A0@dss.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk FreeBSD doesn't support MCA, I'm afraid. On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Peter Pinto wrote: > Hi, > > I tried installing 2.1.7 on a PS/2 Model 65 SX with 6MB on the > motherboard and another 4MB on a MCA expansion card. The system is also > configured with IBM's MCA SCSI-II card, an IBM 200MB SCSI drive, a 3.5" > floppy and a QIC tape drive on the "B" floppy connector. > > When the FreeBSD boot disk tries to boot, the system hangs less than a > second after the drive begins to be read. > > I thought it may be the floppy drive itself, since I can't remember the > last time I've used it. So, I pulled the hard drive and did a full > install working off an ISA type motherboard so that FreeBSD was the only > partition on the drive. > > When I installed the hard drive back into the PS/2, it hung while trying > to boot in what appeared to be the same place. > > It would seem to be that the boot block (or whatever driver tries to > load immediately afterward) is completely incompatible with PS/2 > hardware. > > Is this true? Has this ever been tried? > > Thanks for your time. > > pinto@dss.com > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."