From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 05:58:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27764 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:58:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27759 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA17285; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:56:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA24038; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:56:17 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12982; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:56:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19981208145616.A12839@sr.se> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:56:16 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Paul Dekkers Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD NOT on PII-350? Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <19981208133250.A12745@sr.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Paul Dekkers on Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 01:44:06PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > -- > Paul Dekkers > E-Mail: > To err is human, to moo bovine > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... .. Oh, wait a minute, he already does." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message