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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!news.introl.com!not-for-mail From: tim@introl.com (Tim Chase) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Adaptec boot fails on i386 0.1 Date: 27 Jun 1993 22:57:20 -0500 Organization: Introl Corp. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <20lq70$10la@introl.introl.com> References: <2091@sarah.coh-uk.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: introl.introl.com In article <2091@sarah.coh-uk.uucp> howard@sarah.CohTech.co.UK (Howard Wilkinson) writes: > >I have just recently acquired i386bsd 0.1 from gatekeeper >and cannot get it to boot on a machine with its hard >drive on an Adaptec 1542C controller. It seems that all the install disk images have the old device-specific bootstrap code. I just went through the exercise with a Bustek 545S card. I'll bet that if you could get the BIOS-based boot that Julian Elischer ported from Mach to 386BSD it'd work. Also, you probably need a kernel with newer SCSI drivers. Strangely enough, none of the archive sites seem to have install floppy images with this combination (the BIOS boot & the new SCSI drivers). Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but I was lucky enough to have a trusty old Adaptec 1542B lying around to bootstrap my system. After a bit of patching & building, I'm booting on my Bustek card. Maybe someone can point out where such a boot image might be archived. In the mean time, I'm going to try making such an install disk on my own (for system recovery purposed). -- Tim Chase Introl Corp. Milwaukee, WI USA Email: tim@introl.com Phone: +1 (414) 327-7171