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From: jrp7260@hertz.njit.edu (DudeMan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Problems booting Tiny 386bsd
Keywords: Tiny 386bsd
Message-ID: <1993Apr1.193019.18399@njitgw.njit.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 93 19:30:19 GMT
Sender: Jeffrey Pych
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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Equipment: AT&T StarStation 386/33Mhz, on board IDE, 8meg RAM, Phoenix BIOS.

Problem: I get the following message:

		"Too little RAM, warning running in <?> mode"

The above message is incomplete because the screen immediately clears which
makes it hard to read.  Oh yes, it looks like it's also displaying the
message that is referenced in the INSTALL.NOTES file.

After the screen clears, a colorful bunch of blinking garbage is displayed.
At the bottom of the screen the following is displayed:

		ptd: 81061
		>

Then the floppy drive continues to read forever.  When I press a key I get
the following:

		trap type 12 code = fec00000 eip = fe04fdf0 cs = fdbf008
			eflags = 10246 cr2 0 cp1 ffffffff
		panic: trap
			hit reset please


I tried disabling stuff like shadow ROM and shadow video, but got the same
results every time.  I tried booting the same floppy in a AT&T 6386/25 WGS
and got the same results.  The floppy was created using rawrite.exe.

Am pretty much dead in the water at this point.  Any suggestions would be
appreciated.  Thanks.


Jeff Pych