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From: Martin Machacek <martin@eunet.cz>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: problem installing 2.2 on Compaq Armada
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:25:22 +0100
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As the subject says I've got a problem installing FreeBSD 2.2 Release on
my friend's Compaq Armada notebook (100Mhz Pentium, !6 MB mem, 2 PCI
EIDE controllers, 1.2GB EIDE Harddisk, CirrusLogic ??? Video, 3Com 3C589
PCI NIC, ??? intergrated soundcard, PS/2 Trackpad). The machine hang
while booting from floppy after probing all devices just before mounting
root filesystem. The last message I've got was:

apm0: disabled not probed

All hardware including the PCI NIC was probed OK (as far I can judge -
at least there were no complaints). The only way to make the notebook
work again was to cycle power. FreeBSD 2.1.7 Release boots and installs
without any problem. Has anybody seen this? Is there any BIOS setting
that I should check? Or should my friend rather forget about running 2.2
on Armada? BTW, Micro$hit Windoz patchlevel 95 seems to run...well crawl
,quite OK on this baby.

Any hint is highly appreciated.

-- 
	Martin Machacek.

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