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From: rpk@niagara.edu (Richard P. Kernin)
Subject: NetBSD 1.0 reboots...
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 14:47:00 GMT
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Hello,

I've recently posted about using an EISA system with a Bustek controller
and having the darn thing reboot w/o warning.  I was using NetBSD 1.0, and
switched to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and everything works perfect.  Since on
recommendation I changed much of the EISA/SCSI setup I figured that might
have been the problem, but after getting FreeBSD to work I put the cache
and other defaults back in, and it still works fine.  Then tryed to install
NetBSD (since I did have to change the Bustek IRQ from 11 to 12) on the
system (on another disk though ;-) and it went fine until unpacking the
base10 system.  First it just bombed out, with tar not recognizing the
archive after finishing most of /bin, then I manually did the extraction
and the machine flashed some panic/fault error, and rebooted.  Now any
attempt to install NetBSD on the machine causes a reboot (message, if any,
is flashed so quickly I cannot find it).  I've not tryed FreeBSD 2.0, but
plan on doing so today if I get a free moment.  Anyone run into this
weirdness?  Been running NetBSD 0.9 since around when it came out, but that
is on a VLB system with IDE drives, and 16MB of memory.

Take care,

-Rich

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Richard P. Kernin
Niagara University - Administrative Computer Center

Internet: rpk@niagara.edu	or	visnurpk@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu