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From: rubin@sequel.com (Robert J. Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Initial Installation Problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:57:00 GMT
Organization: Sequel Systems, Inc.
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Here's some additional info:

I dropped the IDE drive and the Mitsumi CD-ROM into a Pentium.
Loaded with no problem at all.

After loading, I placed the drive and CD-ROM back into the
target 486.   Before booting, I disable _all_ hardware that I 
didn't have in the box.

Kernel boots...swapon...fsck's filesystems...hangs.

This just ain't gonna work in this box.  I'd think it's plain vanilla:
486/66, 16M RAM  (AMI BIOS...btw....at what point does
FreeBSD stop using the BIOS?)

	-Robert
	rubin@sequel.com