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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!grivel!alsvid.une.edu.au!mark From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Andrew Garrett) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Can't boot 386bsd (opti chipset?) Message-ID: <CArrLH.Iw1@alsvid.une.edu.au> Date: 26 Jul 93 11:22:29 GMT References: <22nkgkINNn6d@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore) Lines: 20 From article <22nkgkINNn6d@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, by shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (S.E.P. Brown): > 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 I have the same OPTI board with the same problems It sometimes boots other after a few attempts. Mark :) -- Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859 University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.