Subject: Re: 1.4.2 fails on my new pIII system.
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/08/2000 10:52:00
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> Following up on my own post for a third time, I've got 1.4.3_ALPHA
> installed now, thanks to not using the pccons driver. I had to split the
> generic kernel across two floppy disks, boot 1.2G, copy the kernel bits
> onto the hard drive, glue them back together and reboot. Now I have a
> working kernel which uses the wscons driver to talk to the Weasel card and
> that seems to work. I guess the pccons driver officially doesn't get along
> with the PC Weasel card from version 1.4 to 1.5ALPHA. Too bad, it makes
> installation a real drag. When I get things installed, I'll poke at it and
> see if I can figure out where pccons is losing its lunch.
Please do - it would be good to find and fix this.
Could you try a 1.5_ALPHA2 boot floppy to see if its fixed there?
David/absolute
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