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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!news.bbn.com!mips2!roadmap.ma02.bull.com!cass.ma02.bull.com!melb.bull.oz.au!sjg From: sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J Gerraty) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: can't boot 386bsd, original dist.fs or patchkit-0.2.1 version Message-ID: <1993Mar23.180723.25372@melb.bull.oz.au> Date: 23 Mar 93 18:07:23 GMT References: <1993Mar21.125302.29995@melb.bull.oz.au> Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia Lines: 18 In <1993Mar21.125302.29995@melb.bull.oz.au> I wrote: >I spotted this in the BUG LIST, BOOT009 >486/33 OPTI-486WB with 16Mb, AMI BIOS (07/07/91) >It is a new system with just about everything removed and all >CMOS cleverness disabled. >It boots as far as the copyright message then zip. >I have tried the original 386bsd-0.1 dist.fs as well as dist.fs.pk-0.2 Thanks to quick response from Nate Williams and others, I have the system up and flying. The keyboard patches in patch-kit.0.2.2 solve the problem (with the addition of some wait states in the bus cycle? Sorry, I'm guessing here based on the field names in the CMOS setup). -- Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au> (home) #include <disclaimer> /* imagine something *very* witty here */