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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!rpi!masscomp!peora!tarpit!newspost From: jbh@aii.com Subject: Re: 386bsd 0.1 - Advice on bootstrap debugging needed. Message-ID: <1992Jul24.132519.7656@pixie.aii.com> Keywords: 386bsd boot wdboot Sender: newspost@pixie.aii.com Organization: Automation Intelligence References: <greg.711922033@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:25:19 GMT Lines: 27 In article <greg.711922033@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu> greg@ecse.rpi.edu (Greg) writes: >I've already ask this once before, but since the response was nearly >non-existsent, I'll try again. > >I seem to have a problem booting that is timing dependant. My machine will >boot off wd0 about 95 % the time when in low speed mode. In high speed (33MHz) >it boots only about 20% of the time. > Greg, I think you'll find if you pick up either the latest bootwd (patched) or grabbed the diff's or uuencode we posted to this group, your problems will go away. This fix was for a problem where you couln't boot off the H.D. at all, but the bug that was corrected was that the boot code was NOT actually reading the H.D. status register when waiting for drive ready status. This would explain your problem as well. Regards, Jim ====================================================================== Jim Huber jbh@aii.com or ...!tarpit!jbh Voice (407) 661-7017 Automation Intelligence,Inc. 850 Trafalgar Court Suite 200 Maitland, FL 32751 ======================================================================