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From: geordan@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't install FreebSD 2.1-R
Date: 20 Feb 1996 13:09:14 -0800
Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley
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In article <4gb7gf$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
>Ah, one of the screwed newer Mach 64's.

Encouraging... <g>

>Short of this, disable *all* sio devices (not only sio3) after booting
>with -c, just to get your system installed.  Remove the "0x2e8," in
>line 342 of /sys/i386/isa/sio.c (line number valid for stock 2.1R, but
>this is the only occurence of the string 0x2e8 in the entire file),
>and rebuild your kernel.  Obviously, don't configure a sio device at
>address 0x2e8 into it. :-)
>
I'll give that a shot.  Do you know of any problems with the Mach 64 and
XFree86 3.1.2?  I saw a message earlier regarding that.

-Geordan

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