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From: rpt@miles (Richard Toren)
Subject: Nagging FreeBSD 2.0 questions
Message-ID: <1995Feb16.025123.8370@wdl.loral.com>
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 02:51:23 GMT
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Gentlemen;
I have been running FreeBSD 2.0R since the beginning of the year
and have some nagging questions that any help would be appreciated
with:
(note: my News poster may be broken and not be posting my full net
mail address ( rpt@miles.sso.loral.com) )
1) The boot manager installed by sysinstall.
I have an IDE wd0 and a SCSI sd0. The boot manager shows up, but
always boots wd0, regardless of the key I press. A dump from
wd0: (0,0,0) exactly matches /cdrom/tools/dos-tools/boot.bin for
the first 0x168 bytes. Then it diverges with some stored data and
literals.
When looking through /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.386BSD,
I found "If you are using the os-bs bootblocks (highly recommended)
then...". I found this in the/cdrom/dos-tools directory, but there
are no docs or source.
?? Will this actually be able to boot straight from sd0 without me
having to boot from the floppy?
2) CPU identification.
My system was ordered with a Cyrix 486DX/66 processor. The CPU id line
that appears during boot says:
" kernel: CPU: Cy486DLC (486-class CPU) Origin = "Cyrix" "
I thought that the DLC was lacking a fpu and not the same as a DX.
I found the test in /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/locore.s.
1) would a mis-identification cause any problems such as the use of a
fpu emulator rather than the on-board one?
2) is this the only test to id a Cyrix processor?
You are probably thinking, "RTFC (read the flippin chip) dummy.
This chip does not say Cyrix anywhere on it (it also does not say
Intel, or 'ti'). What it does say is "it's ST" with the ST inversed
in a white box.
Is it really Cyrix?? Does it have a fpu??
3) The pppd can't open /dev/tty00.
Seyon can open tty00, and if I exit without dropping the line, then
pppd can do it's thing. But I am trying to get chat to setup the
line and remote end. But the connect <p> is only called after the device
is opened. pppd hangs for as long as I want, and when I
kill it, the console gets (SIC)
Interupted system call: open(/dev/tty00)
1) Is there a control line problem that needs to be toggled by the modem
before the open can complete?
2) Are these permissions ok?
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 28, 0 Feb 15 21:03 /dev/tty00
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 61440 Nov 22 12:27 /usr/sbin/pppd
Any help or guidance on any of these small but nagging problems would
be greatly appreciated.
Rip Toren
rpt@miles.sso.loral.com