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From: klaus@ced.utah.edu (Klaus Biggers,MEB 3140b,581-6499)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Help!! dist-floppy dosen't boot
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In article 11134@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE, Stephan.Maurer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Stephan Maurer) writes:
>Hi!
>
>I tried to boot 386bsd former but I didn't have enough space on my
>200MB-CDC Drive to install it. It booted OK. Now I bought an 1.2GB
>disk from IBM an had to change the Bios/MCode-eproms on my Adaptec
>1542b-Controller to support disks > 1GB. Now, when I try to boot
>from floppy to install 386bsd it stops after the message `changing
>root device to fd0a'. I think it might be a Problem with the SCSI-
>Driver which dosen't support the new Eproms on my Adaptec.
>
>Did anyone else recognize this problem?
>

This is the second message in two days about the dist floppy hanging at
that point. I have the same problem with an IDE (WD 95044-A). It works
just fine with both my Conners.  The probe comes back with the id
jumbled like DW9 0544A- and then it hangs at the same point. Pointers
anyone? The 0.2 patch version does the same.


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-klaus                                              klaus@ced.utah.edu

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