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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!charnel!shawnb From: shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (S.E.P. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Can't boot 386bsd (opti chipset?) Date: 23 Jul 1993 03:04:52 GMT Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 29 Message-ID: <22nkgkINNn6d@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu Hi, I've been having a lot of difficulty trying to boot up 386BSD/NetBSD. I am running a pretty plain vanilla system, no SCSI. The bootdisk hangs before anything is written to the screen, and the drive light that the boot disk is in stays lit for as long as I leave the machine sitting. My hardware configuration is as follows: AMD 386/40 with OPTI chipset No 80387 Quantum 240 Meg IDE HD Acculogic IDE Controller w/ floppy controller ATI VGA Wonder + Taiwanese IO board 2s/1p Viewsonic monitor Hayes 2400 baud modem Does anyone know of any hardware compatability with any of the above? I am particularly concerned about the OPTI chipset. I think that might be it. I have heard people speak of unofficial patched boot floppies. Where can I get these, specifically? Until I get this running I will be running Linux (please help before its too late.) Shawn Brown