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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!darum.uni-mannheim.de!andrew From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PCI: unable to boot/install Date: 2 Jan 1995 15:07:48 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3e94s4$m0s@darum.uni-mannheim.de> References: <ROOT.95Jan1191135@gardano.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de In article <ROOT.95Jan1191135@gardano.tiac.net>, root <root@gardano.tiac.net> wrote: >I just bought a US Logic P5/60 (Pentium) system with a PCI/VESA/ISA >bus. >The IDE controller is marked "UN-1082VL", and the PCI video card has >an Avance Logic ALG3201 chip (a Hercules Stingray). >When I try to boot off the floppy, I get a kernel panic, with an >'unrecognized controller' (or something similar) message. If I need to >supply more info, please let me know. You fail to supply the OS-Name, so this is for "NetBSD-current (and possibly 1.0)": The only supported PCI-controllers are ones with an NCR- Chip 53C810 on it. You will have to use an ISA-IDE-Controller for your drives and you will have to replace your PCI-video with an ISA-VGA compatible card (like an et4000-svga or an s3-card) Cheerio -- The cost of living hasn't affected it's popularity. (unknown) current release=doc host=wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de \ "NetBSD-current mirror" hostbase=/mit/ftp/pub/NetBSD base=/usr prefix=/usr backup delete use-rel-suffix