Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:38:04 -0500 From: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: My BIOS wants to know "Do you have a PNP OS?" Message-ID: <4.1.19990118220855.00a155a0@firebat.wolfepub.com> In-Reply-To: <199901190144.JAA13063@spinner.netplex.com.au> References: <Your message of "Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:34:46 PST." <199901190134.RAA84965@apollo.backplane.com>
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Greetings, What should the "PNP OS?" option in a BIOS be set to? What effect does this setting have on FreeBSD? I'm having trouble with the following system: I think it is an Intel board, but there are no markings, however it is in a Micronics case and looks and smells like an Intel board. Everything is built-in, i.e. on the board: Dual Processor LX chipset Adaptec SCSI (AIC-7880H) Intel Ethernet (10/100) (82555) Cirus Logic Video (GD5446) All hard disks are SCSI and one Sony CDU-701 IDE CDROM. When I set the PNP-OS option to "Yes", FreeBSD-3.0 (CDROM) cannot find the address of the Ethernet controller. However FreeBSD-2.2.8 (CDROM) can. When I switch the PNP-OS option to "No" then FreeBSD-3.0 finds the controller!? What is "really" going on? What should a setting like this "usually" be? Also (sorry, a little off topic), neither 2.2.8 nor 3.0 can detect the CDROM. The BIOS sets it up fine and I can even boot and start the install from the CD, but when I try to select CDROM from the Media menu it says there are no CDROMs available? Any hints? Does this look more like a CD problem or an IDE/Intel board problem? The detection pauses for a *very* long time for which ever controller the CD is conneted to. Thanks, Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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