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From: steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Help booting dist.fs on my 386DX-33
Message-ID: <11370@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 93 19:26:47 GMT
References: <1993Feb23.041216.19646@alw.nih.gov>
Reply-To: steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz)
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX
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In article <1993Feb23.041216.19646@alw.nih.gov> ramon@helix.nih.gov (Ramon J. Hontanon) writes:
>I've tried to boot up tiny 386BSD for a long time now, and have had no
>success with the dist.fs from 0.1 or the one in ~/bootables at 
>agate.berkeley.edu. Whenever I try it, it gives me the welcome banner
>and just hangs there, the A: drive light spinning....

I tried installing 386BSD recently, and this was merely the first of
a great many problems I encountered...  The answer to this riddle (for
me) was to press & release the left shift key...  This, for reasons
best known to a kernel hacker, unsticks it.

					- Steve