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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!kirk!bambi
From: bambi@bu.oz.au (David J. Hughes)
Subject: 0.1 on a Compaq Deskpro 386/20 ????
Message-ID: <1992Jul27.043356.10534@kirk.bu.oz.au>
Organization: ITS, Bond University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:33:56 GMT

Seeing as we provide the Australian archive for 386BSD, I thought it was
about time I got a box up and running.  The only "spare" non-PS/2 box I
could get my hands on was a Compaq Deskpro 386/20 with a 300Meg ESDI and
6 Megs of RAM.

Well, things get about as far as the "boot beep" and that's it.  The
boot process starts but last about 2 seconds (ie. loading the bootstrap.
Nothing makes it to the screen).  At that point, the system reboots.

I have tried the same floppy on a Deskpro 386/25 with the same results.
Booting the floppy in a Toshiba 5100 laptop comes up fine.

Has anyone got 0.1 to boot on a Compaq Deskpro?  



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