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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1517 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:46:45 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!depaul!falcon.depaul.edu!acsbah From: acsbah@falcon.depaul.edu (Brian A. Hirt) Subject: Problems with FLEX 386/40 (not related to gnu flex) Nntp-Posting-Host: falcon.depaul.edu Sender: news@hal.depaul.edu (News Admin) Organization: DePaul University, Chicago Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 16:37:49 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb16.163749.22073@hal.depaul.edu> Lines: 26 Hi, I'm having trouble installing 386bsd onto a FLEX 386/40. The strangest thing seems to be happening. But first, let me say a couple of things before I exlpain the problem. I've tried using my own dist.fs with some patches I needed (Includeding the TWO drive patch), and I also tried the patch-kit 0.2.1 dist.fs. and, I've installed 386bsd on several other maching at work and home. The hardware is a 386/40 with AMI bios. The motherboard is made by Cache Inc. I have a WD8013 (SMC), and an ATI VGA wonder in the machine, but have had the same problems with a Boca ET4000. I have two IDE Quantum LP52A drives (50 Meg each). That's pretty much my hardware configuration. Now here's the problem I'm having. I can boot off a floppy and run the initial installation procedure, which does a newfs and put some stuff on the hard drive. After this step, you need to boot off the hard drive. When I reboot, the hard drive light goes on, and then the floppy drive light goes on. About 5% of the time, 386sd may actually boot, but most of the time it doesn't. The thing is that I can can boot off the floppy and mount the hard drive and see all the files put there by the installation program. I'd also like to point out that I've disabled all the shadow memory and cache and I took out one of the disks just in case, but neither worked. Well, I guess my question is: Has anyone got 386bsd to work on a system like this, and if so do you have any advise for me. Thanks in advance. -- Brian A. Hirt acsbah@falcon.depaul.edu