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Re: OS-BS vs. LILO, 3c509
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Feb 7 18:51:29 1995
To: ericding@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Feb 1995 17:04:00 EST."
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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 18:51:16 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 1) I've currently got DOS on my first hard drive, and want to put
> NetBSD on my second drive. Is there a boot manager like LILO for
> Linux (such as OS-BS??) that will allow me to manage both?
According to some notes by John Kohl, booteasy will transfer boot to
the second drive, and so will OS-BS 2.0 beta.
> 2) Is the 3c509 reliably supported by NetBSD?
Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems:
Problem 1: autodetection of the card fails unless you do a cold boot.
This problem is fixed once you install the Athena kernel, but you need
to use the reset button when you reboot your machine until you do the
Athena install. No big deal.
Problem 2: On some machines with 3c509s (about 50%), the 3c509 driver
will periodically fall off the net, and you have to reset the network
interface. We're still working on this. The current workaround is to
run a shell loop:
while 1
ifconfig ep0 down; ifconfig ep0 up
sleep 10
end
This isn't perfect (zwgc tends to die every so often because of it),
and I have a better workaround in development (a C program which does
the reset more quickly).
I personally find these bugs less frustrating than Linux-AFS problems,
but your mileage may vary. :)
