From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 11:27:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18875 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA18870 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA04941; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:27:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Chad R. Larson" cc: support@freebsd.org, Barry Lyon Subject: Re: Boot Floppies In-Reply-To: <9610142210.AA03733@chad.anasazi.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 On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Chad R. Larson wrote: > We're using the 2.1.0 release, and we want to get it up on a Compac > Prosignia 300 which has a NCR 810 PCI SCSI card. The kernel that is on > the boot floppy doesn't know about such a thing, but the sources look > like we could build a kernel that does. Then we need to create a boot > floppy with our kernel. Some Compaq's have a broken PCI bus and won't allow them to detect the card correctly. The default boot.flp has NCR support on it, so if it's not found then there's another problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major