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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7574 ; Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:18:06 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!csn!hansford!murrayc From: murrayc@hansford.com (Charles H. Murray) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] boot disk does absolutely nothing on gateway 4dx33v Message-ID: <iy0XrA-MBh107h@hansford.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:23:46 -0700 References: <1jkdpeINNkeg@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> Organization: The Hansford Group - Contract Software Engineering and Consulting Lines: 23 In <1jkdpeINNkeg@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> tim@news.Brown.EDU (Timothy Miller) writes: >I have acquired the boot disk image for 386bsd, and no matter what I try, >when my system starts up, it displays all the bios messages, and then hangs >with the floppy drive light on. >My system is a Gateway 2000 4DX-33V with the ATI ultra pro VESA card, 8M of >memory, the gateway 124 (?not sure of exact #) keyboard, and otherwise >basically standard settings (one 340M IDE hard drive, no SCSI, no ethernet, >no funny other cards). I would be VERY interested in the answer to this as this is the system I want to purchase for running 386BSD. I would probably go with SCSI for the disk though. Timothy, if you get info via mail, either post it or send it to me, as I want to make my purchase fairly soon. -- Charles H. Murray Software Engineering Consultant "On assignment at IBM in Breckenridge, Colorado USA Research Triangle Park murrayc@hansford.com North Carolina USA"