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From: wheeler@jeckle.mitre.org (Brien L. Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: patched bootables on agate...
Message-ID: <1992Jul22.191215.29393@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:12:15 GMT
References: <14gb3kINNlsr@agate.berkeley.edu> <explorer.711733580@tbird.cc.iastate.edu>
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In article <explorer.711733580@tbird.cc.iastate.edu>, explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) writes:
>
> I tried these disks, but I still can't install BSD 0.1 on my Zenith
> Z-386/25.
>
> Machine info:
> 150M ESDI drive, wd ethernet card irq 2/9, vga, com 1, com 2.
> 386DX 25Mhz, no fpu.
>
> Install info:
> install using the patched and non-patched dist.fs disks. When
> installing, it seems to write to the hard drive fine. If I
> hit ^C when it wants to reboot, I can mount the filesystem and
> everything seems to work. However, it locks during reboot.
> The keyboard lights flash, and the floppy light stays on. It
> requires a power cycle to make it come back to life.
I too have had problems loading 386BSD onto the drive in my Zenith Z-386
PC. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the PC architecture to
adequately describe my system, but it includes a WD8013 Elite at IRQ 2,
5 MB RAM, a Paradise VGA card, a 387 FPU, and an 80 MB HD (don't know what
kind). I have the same problems as Michael Graff -- It just won't boot
off the hard disk, even though it appears to be installed correctly.
I did some fooling around with defining the whole disk as an extended
DOS partition, changing the partition tag to A5 and attempting the install,
but it still did the exact same thing when attempting to boot off the HD.
Brien