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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).



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