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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Re: PROBLEMS WITH PATCHKIT 0.2.2 - Advice/help needed :-(
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 18:04:16 GMT
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Just to throw in my 2 bits about motherboard problems...

I had originally ordered BSDI to install on a 486DX50 EISA with 256k cache.

It wouldn't load at all in the floppy boot stage.  If I turned off the cache,
then the floppies would boot, and the OS loaded fine, but performance was
abysmal.

I then built a new kernel from scratch off the hard disk, installed it, and
after that, I could turn my cache back on, and things hauled butt.

On the other hand, I have never had any problems with 386bsd and cache on my
machine that I can recall.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu