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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: Tell me it is not so. (Booting problems AHA-1542C)
Date: 17 Feb 1994 19:51:04 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: weingart@BrandonU.CA's message of 16 Feb 94 13:35:42 CST


In article <1994Feb16.133543.6901@news.brandonu.ca>
weingart@BrandonU.CA (Tobias Weingartner) writes:

   The problem is that the AHA BIOS is disabled.

Since NetBSD (and FreeBSD) both use the BIOS facilities to load the
kernel, you *must* have the adapter's BIOS enabled to boot.

--
- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
  Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532.
  In progress: pmax, sun3.