Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:50:46 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com> To: Michael Richards <michael@fastmail.ca> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems booting an AS1200 Message-ID: <20010214235046.E65907@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca>; from michael@fastmail.ca on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0500 References: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0500, Michael Richards wrote: > > The 1200 is part of the "rawhide" family of machines. Our > > bootloader provokes bugs in the console firmware of the rawhide > > (or vice versa) and prevents the machine from booting FreeBSD via > > floppy or CD-ROM devices. > > Has anyone narrowed these bugs down so we know exactly what the > problem is? Is it reasonable to expect a workaround, or is this > simply not possible? No one has spent any real time on this. I set myself up to trudge thru it, if Matt Jacobs (who did the Rawhide support) had time to work on it. But that hasn't happened. > So I see. I guess I will switch it around so the hard drives run from > the onboard controller and the CD-Rom runs from the adaptec. Then you could not boot from CDROM (once the loader is fixed). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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