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From: rmw3@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard M. Warwick)
Subject: Booting 386BSD...
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 02:54:38 GMT
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I tried booting the distribution boot floppy and my system hangs.

The following is a list of all (I hope) relevant information.  Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.


Machine Specs
---------------------------------------
Magitronic 386 25DX 
8MB RAM
AMI BIOS (May 5, 1991)
5.25" & 3.5" floppies
Trident TVGA BIOS (v2.1) w/1024k
3 serial (COM1,2,4) ports
1 Parallel port
1 110 Meg HD 
Western Digital RLL controller

BIOS OPTIONS
--------------------------------------
Display type: VGA/PGA/EGA
HD memory Area: 0:300
All shadow memory areas: disabled
HD type: 47 (960Cyl, 9Hds, 26S/T)
Fast gate a20 option: disabled

BOOT TIME MESSAGES
---------------------------------------
386 BSD Release 0.1 [etc.]
Copyright messages ...
....
PC0<color>[cursor sits here]at 0x60 on irq1 on isa
COM0 at 0x3f8 irq4 on isa
wd0 at 0x1f0 irq14 on isa
fd0 at 0x3f0 irq6 drq2 on isa
changing root device to fd0b

at this point the system is hung.

I have successfully booted this selfsame disk on other 386 clones.

I realize that my configuration may not be currently supported, but I'm
hoping that I have somehow neglected to (un)set certain option(s)
that may be obvious to someone more knowledgeable than myself about 386BSD.


Please reply via E-mail...I will post a summary if there seems to be any 
interest. 
-- 
Richard Warwick              Internet:  rich@b62707.student.cwru.edu
Case Western Reserve U.	      o o       rich@snowhite.eeap.cwru.edu
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