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From: terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: 386BSD on ALR??
Message-ID: <1992Jul29.155350.6105@gateway.novell.com>
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References: <1992Jul29.122935.4015@nynexst.com> <veit.712418327@du9ds3>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:53:50 GMT
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In article <veit.712418327@du9ds3>, veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes:
|> In <1992Jul29.122935.4015@nynexst.com> rjc@nynexst.com (Robert Casazza) writes:
|> 
|> >I'm having trouble booting the "tiny" distribution diskette.
|> >I've tried the debugging version with no success.  I get
|> >no messages, the system just hangs and I have to power down.
|> >I've tried cold booting with no success.
|> 
|> >Configuration:
|> 
|> >ALR BusinessVEISA 386/33, 8Mb, 200M IDE Conner, Paradise SVGA,
|>              ^^^^^
|> >shadow bios disabled.
|> 
|> >Does anybody have 386BSD running on an ALR??
|> 
|> >Thanks,
|> >Bob
|> >-- 
|> >Robert Casazza                                rjc@nynexst.com
|> >NYNEX Science & Technology Center
|> >White Plains, NY 10604
|> 
|> Does the above really read EISA? If so:
|> 
|> 	N O  S U P P O R T  F O R  E I S A  A N D  M I C R O C H A N N E L
|> 
|> 	A R C H I T E C T U R E S  Y E T !!!
|> 
|> Give it up.

	This is wrong; unless he has non-ISA cards in his EISA bus, it should
function normally.  It is true for microchannel -- anyone hacking this yet?

					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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