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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!nic.tip.net!palantir.p.tvt.se!pp2.smc.south.telia.se!paul From: paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se (Paul Pries) Subject: Re: Help with Pentium 90, Bt946C, install .... Message-ID: <1994Jul16.173919.10018@palantir.p.tvt.se> Sender: news@palantir.p.tvt.se (News account) Organization: Swedish Telecom X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <jaganeCsyx62.4Fo@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 17:39:19 GMT Lines: 27 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. -- Paul Pries paul@smc.south.telia.se