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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2256 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:51:16 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: Continual rebooting of hard disk after install Message-ID: <1993Feb26.005713.23787@coe.montana.edu> Keywords: 386bsd, kernel, hard disk Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717 References: <neil.730656686@dehn> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 00:57:13 GMT Lines: 20 In article <neil.730656686@dehn> neil@alamo.mth.pdx.edu (John Neil) writes: >I'm not exactly sure what is happening with my hard disk, but when I installed >Tiny 386bsd from the floppy everything worked great until it tried to boot off >the hard disk. Then, every time, it will start to boot up and immediately do >a warm boot and will continue to do so until I put in a floppy to boot off of. >Rather than waste bandwidth with my setup, if you have ideas or can offer >advice, I'd appreciate it. > Let me make a guess. Do you have an IDE drive? If so, you are having the BIOS translation problem. I don't know the fix, but I do know the problem. :( Nate -- opjnw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, home #: (406) 586-0579 | I don't think they'll catch on - Don H.