Subject: Re: PowerROMs
To: None <amb@physig.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
From: Steve Dicks <steve@starswan.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/27/1997 22:06:51
In message <Pine.SGI.3.95.970225203536.13662H-100000@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk> you recently waffled:

>On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Stephen Jones wrote:
>
>> Upon booting RiscBSD, my machine hangs due to having a PowerROM
>> installed in an Oak card (it used to boot with the original).
>> Is (or will) there be a workaround for this?
>
>For got to say ...
>
>A temporary solution that I can easily do it to provide a boot time option
>to disable the ptsc driver so that the kernel will not try and attach a
>ptsc driver at all. This would allow generic kernels etc to boot but you
>would not be able to use the scsi card.
>
>Cheers,
>				Mark
>
>
>
Yes please! I've put aside a RiscBSD installation because I have a PowerROM
VTI SCSI card which hangs the kernel, and my old Oak card doesn't even have
CDFS in it.


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