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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: <1993Mar23.183842.25960@melb.bull.oz.au>
Date: 23 Mar 93 18:38:42 GMT
References: <1993Mar21.125302.29995@melb.bull.oz.au>
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia
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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).


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Simon J. Gerraty        <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>            (home)

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