On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been trying to boot up a Compaq 1850. Aside from it hanging > on booting I noticed that I was booting with 5.2.1-RC, not -release > So, d/l the latest iso and now the darned machine won't boot from > the 5.2.1-release cds at all. Doesn't even see them. I've booted > this machine up on 3 or 4 different linuxen, Fbsd4.9, Solaris 8, > even openDarwin 7. I've burned several cds of 5.2.1-release-mininst > but no joy. > Hi!
Well, I also had once a 1850 as monitoring server, and well, I got the newer version with P III-500 CPU, not the old one with PII-CPUs. Was no big joy, I suspect that there are some things lurking around regarding Compaqs special treatment of register mapping et al. I had mine running then with 4.8, and well, it worked... Just my 0.02 Eurocent.... Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
