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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:27:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM>
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Subject: Re: Problems with AHA 1542W on 2.2-BETA
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On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Mark Diekhans wrote:

> Geometry traslation is turned off, but it exhibits the classic geometry
> translation symptoms.  Installs fine, but hangs after the `F1' prompt.
> This system was previously running SCO, not FreeBSD, so I don't know if this
> is something with 2-2.BETA, the hardware or something stupid I am doing.

Did you try the classic solution:  put a DOS partition on there, run
sysinstall, delete the DOS partition from sysinstall & install FreeBSD on
the whole disk?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major