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From: fessel@quantum.de (Jan-Hinrich Fessel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: Tell me it is not so. (Booting problems AHA-1542C)
Date: 24 Feb 1994 17:05:21 GMT
Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
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Message-ID: <2kimoh$pg9@quba.quantum.de>
References: <1994Feb16.133543.6901@news.brandonu.ca> <MYCROFT.94Feb17145104@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <MYCROFT.94Feb17145104@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Charles Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <1994Feb16.133543.6901@news.brandonu.ca>
>weingart@BrandonU.CA (Tobias Weingartner) writes:
>
> The problem is that the AHA BIOS is disabled.
>
>Since NetBSD (and FreeBSD) both use the BIOS facilities to load the
>kernel, you *must* have the adapter's BIOS enabled to boot.
And it should be very easy to enable the BIOS using the
configuration utility built into the 1542C. If the adapter does not
prompt you for ^A at bootup, be sure to have old DOS handy ;-)
On the other hand, it was not possible for me to boot NetBSD
with the 1542C BIOS enabled _and_ any WD type disk enabled
by the machine's setup program.
cheers
Oskar
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Jan-Hinrich Fessel , Systemverwaltung
Quantum Gesellschaft fuer Software mbH, D-4600 Dortmund, Germany
fessel@quantum.DE Jan-Hinrich_Fessel@un.maus.DE