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From: paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se (Paul Pries)
Subject: Re: Help with Pentium 90, Bt946C, install ....
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jagane@netcom.com (Jagane D Sundar) writes:
: 	It's been a while since I dropped out of the 386BSD scene and I got
: 	around to trying FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on my brand new Pentium machine
: 	last week. Config as follows,
: 
: 
: 	Micron Pentium 90 w 32 MB RAM
: 	Bustek 946C SCSI PCI card w/ Conner 1 GIG drive
: 	Matrox PCI Graphics.
: 
: 	Here's what happens,
: 		The boot floppy loads the kernel, and asks for the FS floppy.
: 	Once I have the FS floppy in, the kernel detects all the hardware then
: 	says its trying to change root device to fd0a. That is the last I hear
: 	from the kernel. The kernel is frozen. Arrrggghhh!!!!!
: 
Exactly the same thing happend to me, when I was trying out a Bt946C.
I switched to a 747 (EISA) instead, and all was well. There has been some
rumors saying that people are actually using the Bt-946C, but I've never 
seen one in action... ;-)

If you get it to work, _please_ tell me the trick... :-)

	/Paul.
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Paul Pries
paul@smc.south.telia.se