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#! rnews 1529 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.inet.tele.dk!clio.trends.ca!worldlinx.com!news1.sympatico.ca!news From: Stephane Lajeunesse <slajeunesse@sympatico.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't install on 386 SX 16mhz Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 19:25:10 -0400 Organization: Sympatico Lines: 18 Message-ID: <324C6256.3A20BC5D@sympatico.ca> References: <324360F5.CA09605@sympatico.ca> <01bba814$ee70c200$e916abc7@pcrawlings.jlsc.wpafb.af.mil> <523knb$sbu@klemm.gtn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp436.qc.sympatico.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i586) To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Andreas Klemm wrote: > Yeah ! -c enables kernel config mode. > Enter 'visual' mode by typing this magic word ;) > Remove every unnecessary driver. > Enter the correct settings for your controller. > > This might help ! > Hi, I think I've found the problem. When I installed NetBSD, it detected my Hard Disk controller as a ST506. I think I saw somewhere (probably the FAQ) that the ST506 controller is not supported in the generic Kernel. If I'm wrong, please tell me so that I can look at what I need to do to boot FreeBSD off of this machine. Thanks, Steph.