From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 14:30:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12069 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.dyn.ml.org (host77-201.airnet.net [209.64.77.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11954 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:30:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@ninbox.dyn.ml.org) Received: from ninbox.dyn.ml.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02589; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:29:35 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34F49B4E.909E3E04@ninbox.dyn.ml.org> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:29:35 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Reply-To: kris@airnet.net Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: John Kenagy , questions freebsd Subject: Re: UPSd and PS2 compatibility References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > FreeBSD won't boot and the slots on the MB look funny. The MCA slots look like PCI slots. The connectors are *physically* identical. If you plug a PCI card in a MCA machine and flip the switch, all bets are off. They are *not* identical in signalling. Generally, a PS/2 with ISA (only) and a 386 ought to be able to run FreeBSD. Email me the model # and I will tell you if it is ISA or naught. (pun intended) -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message