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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!norm From: norm@enel.ucalgary.ca (Norm Bartley) Subject: Toshiba 1950CS boot problems Message-ID: <May24.223136.33597@acs.ucalgary.ca> Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 22:31:36 GMT Organization: ECE Department, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Lines: 13 Hello, I have a Toshiba 1950CS notebook with a 486Dx2-40 and 8 Megs RAM. Attempts to boot current releases of NetBSD or FreeBSD from floppy cause the message: "Read error. [beep]," followed by freeze-up. NetBSD-0.8 boots okay, and so do 386bsd-0.1, Linux, and NEXTSTEP. The NetBSD-0.9 documentation suggests that this sort of problem should not occur. Any advice? Norm