Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:56:16 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD NOT on PII-350? Message-ID: <19981208145616.A12839@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981208134203.4753A-100000@chippie.cgu>; from Paul Dekkers on Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 01:44:06PM %2B0100 References: <19981208133250.A12745@sr.se> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981208134203.4753A-100000@chippie.cgu>
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On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 01:44:06PM +0100, Paul Dekkers wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
>
> | > It seems I haven't formulated my question correctly:
> | > CAN FreeBSD run on an pII-350? If so, why does the error CMAP busy message
> | > apear when booting from the bootdisk?
> |
> | I run 3.0 on a PII-350 with 128MB of RAM. Works OK!
>
> Did you have to disable something in your BIOS? Maybe it's the PNP... I
> once got it working, after disabling the PNP, but then it started
> complaining about not enough diskspace so the partition table couldn't be
> created, and the system rebooted.
Yes, I always disable BIOS Pnp OS support, but my disk wasn't so big as
yours. Its only (?) 6GB
> After, it never worked again, however the PNP remains disabled...
>
> What kind of BIOS do you have? There's an AWARD in this machine, I'm
> afraid there's an option (however I don't know which) that's wrong...
It's an Siemens motherboard and Phoenix BIOS.
>
> Paul
>
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