From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 14 23:51:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0854337B503 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1F7okY66619; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:50:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:50:46 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Michael Richards Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems booting an AS1200 Message-ID: <20010214235046.E65907@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca>; from michael@fastmail.ca on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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