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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!usenet.hana.nm.kr!ames!hookup!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Have I missed something Date: 27 May 1994 17:26:24 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 40 Message-ID: <2s5ag0$huj@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <1994May24.193107.23935@rhrk.uni-kl.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu In article <1994May24.193107.23935@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT] <weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote: >Hello, > >I got FreeBSD 1.0. (I think) I've checked all the install documentation, >but somehow feel like having missed something obvious. > >Am I really supposed to open my PC and reconfigure about any >card that is in there (IDE, SCSI, 2* Network, Video), and after >that make the two OSes (DOS, OS/2) that are already there working again, >because FreeBSD can't be configured to the setup that used to work ? Yes. Every PC has different configurations and the initial installation kernel needs to be prepared for it. Unfortunately, when the initial kernel was compiled, it does not know how the hardware of the PC to be installed on will be configured (interrupts). So, initial interrupt setup was fixed : NE ethernet card - interrupt 5, Adaptec SCSI - interrupt .....etc. This means that you need to open the PC and reconfigure all the interrupt setup. BTW, if I remember correctly, Linux setup does not need this interrupt reconfiguration. When I configured NE card inturrupt to 2, the initial kernel checked that NE card be in INT2 and it went on OK. When I confugred the NE card inturrupt ot 5, it also checked that NE card be in INT5 and it also went on OK. I just wonder how they did it. But in case of soundcard, it needed reconfiguration (or recompilation). I am wondering whether there is a way to know all the interrupts at initial time and can be configured appropriately dynamically. -- ____ ____ ____ ______________________________________ (__) _________________ | | | | | | W. Woody Jin (wjin@cs.uh.edu) (oo) Moo... | | | |__| | Bovinetic Algorithm Design o=======\/ I'm a Cow Lover. | | | | Dept. of Cowmooputer Science / | || My wife was born \ |---| |--| | University of Houston * ||w---|| in Cow year. Mooo \____/|__| |__| ________________________________^^ ^^_____________________ % nohup cat *flames* >& /dev/bull &